A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans & expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity – to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance.

There’s damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say ‘words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress’. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, “Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow

Countless people…will hate the New World Order…and will die protesting against it…we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

Perilous times are before us. The whole world will be involved in perplexity and distress, disease of every kind will be upon the human family, and such ignorance as now prevails concerning the laws of health would result in great suffering and the loss of many lives that might be saved.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

He told his wife I’m truly sorry to distress you, but I’m not going with you to church this Christmas Eve.

I’ve never known any distress that an hour’s reading didn’t relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

Of pain, you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.