Emotional Distress Quotes

#1. Emotional Distress (n.): A negative emotional reaction - which may include fear, anger, anxiety, and suffering

Whitney Gracia Williams

#2. Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

Nancy Gibbs

#3. I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Judy Sheindlin

#4. You need to be careful who you're around if you want to stay healthy, but you also need to make sure that you are tamping down and dealing with your own emotional distress and negative emotions as well.

John Franz

#5. Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

John Mayer

#6. I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

Julianne Moore

#7. I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

Oliver James

#8. As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals
to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress
and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for
pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

Aaron T. Beck

#9. Obsessing over a boy is like throwing precious time into the garbage, and all I have to show for it is chewed-off fingernails, self-doubt, and emotional distress.

Katie Kacvinsky

#10. Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete (the) other tasks.

Brian Tracy

#11. Transformation occurs only when we remember, breath by breath, year after year, to move toward our emotional distress without condemning or justifying our experience.

Pema Chodron

#12. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

Pema Chodron

#13. I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals ...

Peter Kinderman

#14. Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

V.S. Naipaul

#15. Rose,sensing her mother's distress ... She did not face me, but I could feel the vibration of tears, a kind of pain hive,rustling inside her.

Aimee Bender

#16. Do as you're told, sweetling, it won't be so bad. Wolves are supposed to be brave, aren't they?

George R R Martin

#17. No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do not come out selfish.

Max Stirner

#18. Sometimes it seems like "pain" is too obvious a place to turn for inspiration. Pain isn't always deep, anyway. Sometimes it's awful and that's it. Or boring. Surely other things can be as profound as pain.

Ellen Forney

#19. Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Aeschylus

#20. People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Dana Hill

#21. That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Paul Wolfowitz

#22. Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the emotional shock of domestic distress. Even a mediocre performance at the office can help a person repair self-esteem damaged in domestic battles.

Faye J Crosby

#23. In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Anthony Storr

#24. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

Frank X. Barron

#25. Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

Pema Chodron

#26. I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

Nancy Greene

#27. Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite.

Robin Reardon

#28. Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government is going to win for sure. The opposition is in a total mess. So we just have to pay off the government, which is good for us.

Aravind Adiga

#29. You're such an imbecile, you know that?"

"Yet, here you sit next to me trying to catch my attention with your legs. Is this your way of showing me what's on offer, because I have news for you, Chelsea, I ain't buying it. So what do you want?

Heidi McLaughlin