“Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.”

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.”

“What distressed me most — more even than my own folly — was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?”

“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”

“It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.”

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

“Is there anyone else that you look like, Steve, or would you say you're a bit of a one-off?”

“Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.”

“More skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure,
As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress.”

“Marcia: You look lovely. People talk to me about you and I say you're one of the kindest souls I know.”