Great Distress Quotes

#1. History has shown that from times of great distress are sown the seeds of opportunity, promise, and renewal.

Sameet M. Kumar

#2. The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

Fanny Kemble

#3. We give thanks to God, who delivers us, from great distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Pride is a proof of great distress and turmoil within the heart. It is a sign of insecurity and weakness

Josephine Akhagbeme

#5. It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

Lucretius

#6. For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.

Teresa Of Avila

#7. The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

Laozi

#8. Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: 'No'. And in the great distress that washed over him, Mersault realised that his rebellion was the only authentic thing in him, and that everything elsewhere was misery and submission".

Albert Camus

#9. When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

Adolf Hitler

#10. I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

Anne Royall

#11. I try not to laugh too loud, afraid a bark-like noise will be mistaken by any great whites lurking in the area as the distress call of a juvenile seal.

Elle Lothlorien

#12. Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

Plutarch

#13. As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, and I pause for only a moment before I decide that if I leave, I will no longer intimidate the machine, and it will then do its job very well without me.

Marya Hornbacher

#14. When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Jonathan Edwards

#15. It's a fine wake I'll be wanting, with the best if everything, and beautiful women shedding tears and their clothes in their distress, and brave men lamenting and telling fine tales of me in my great days.

Neil Gaiman

#16. It is a shame for anyone
to be well-known for righteousness.
It is a great disgrace to feel
distress at the injustice of
the turning of the wheels of fate.

Omar Khayyam

#17. The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the poor.
The great GOD is a tower of refuge to the needy in distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

George Q. Cannon

#19. Thank God, who delivered us from great death, the doom of distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Like all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor question, what is that?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#21. For at times it happens that some trifle will cause as much suffering to one as a great trial will to another; little things can bring much distress to persons who have sensitive natures. If you are not like them, do not fail to be compassionate.

Teresa Of Avila

#22. If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

James Nachtwey

#23. All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Adolf Hitler

#24. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.

Theodore Dreiser

#26. Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Plautus

#27. Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

Sivananda

#28. Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Josiah Strong

#29. What great good, then, we are to expect and hope from participating in his divinity, when even his distress calms us and his weakness strengthens us.

Augustine Of Hippo

#30. Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

Victor Hugo

#31. A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

Frederick The Great