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Quotes About Discomfort

We are well," Hugh said, looking me over with more intensity than seemed proper. "And you?" "I'm well, thank you," I said, lying through my teeth. I'd been better the day I took to my bed with measles.
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this.
~ Jill Shalvis
You're green. Tell me you have the flu." "No." "The shoulder?" "Yeah." "Well, fuck me." "I'd rather not.
~ Jill Shalvis
Tilly: How are you doing? Quinn: I'm thirty months pregnant, how do you think I'm doing? I'm peeing every two seconds and eating the house.
~ Jill Shalvis
they were all sweating like hookers in a confessional
~ Jill Shalvis
It gets too hot in there after a long test," he told Ehren. "The air gets all squishy." "It's called humidity, Tavi," Ehren said. "I haven't slept in almost two days. It's squishy.
~ Jim Butcher
I felt like a collection of complaints and malfunctions
~ Jim Butcher
He leant back to stare heavenwards, gently fingering the swollen skin around his black eye. But the river stank. Reduced by the heat like a good soup, it was sixty per cent ducks' piss with a hint of incontinent rat.
~ Jim Kelly
I was cold because nothing in my body was working as it should.
~ Joan Didion
At least she'd finally figured out why the green leggings she wore were called tights. It was because they were tight. Extremely tight. So very tight that she felt like a sausage about to split open on a blazing hot barbecue grill.
~ Joanne Fluke
But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much
~ Jodi Picoult
It's a bad day when my glasses are M.I.A.
~ Unknown
I hate being around a bunch of drunk a.. adults.
~ Unknown
Being sick and having a nose ring sucks!
~ Unknown
You know what's the worst? Being sick in the Summertime.
~ Unknown
3 reasons why I hate being sick: 1. I can't smell anything 2. I can't taste anything 3. I have to keep blowing my nose!
~ Unknown
In short, I was in a familiar place, the place of feeling unfamiliar, which I responded to in my usual fashion by arming myself with a gin and tonic, my first of the evening. I
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
the sodden, sweaty weariness of his own body, the whisky misery of it.
~ Vikram Chandra
People believe easily when it doesn't cause them any discomfort. It's when it hurts to believe that believing means something.
~ Unknown
My hands felt bruised from the hot, dry air. Inside,
~ Unknown
The twist in his lower back that was aggravated by lifting objects, or sneezing, or moving, or not moving. No one had ever told him that growing old would hurt so much.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!
~ T. Harv Eker
When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
He'd never lost the simple pleasure, which went way back, of making people uncomfortable, comfortable people especially.
~ Philip Roth