| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 220baa2 | I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much. | empowerment get-over-it maximum-ride james-patterson distress pretense trouble | James Patterson | |
| eb84991 | depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases. | depression grave-disease remedy distress victim help disease depressed mental-illness | William Styron | |
| e0386c3 | Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress. | danielewski distress the-familiar xanther nails bite | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 35ecf80 | When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening. | distress anxiety | Samuel Beckett |