Top 25 Distress Quotes of 28 - Page 2

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Distress, Highest

Henry Fielding (2013). “The History of Tom Jones”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

Romance, Handsome, Damsel In Distress

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

Tears, Odd, Distress

Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.310, Diversion Books

A deep distress has humanised my soul.

Soul, Distress, My Soul

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

Photograph, Performances, Distressing

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

Share, Equal, Distress

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.

Distress, Restroom, Concentrating

David Foster Wallace (2009). “Infinite Jest”, p.22, Hachette UK

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Ends, Draws, Distress

Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.143, GENERAL PRESS

I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

Distress

Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.62, Bloomsbury Publishing

It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

Embarrassment, Idiocy, Distress

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.10

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