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Quotes About Discomfort

When you're with a bunch of loud 20-year-olds, if you're on a movie and everybody is a lot younger than you and they want you to go to a club, I'm not very comfortable in that situation. I've been on movies when everybody goes out to some loud place. I don't know; I'm not comfortable.
~ Margo Martindale
When 'Center Stage' first came out, I had some little girls on an airplane who didn't want to actually talk to me but wanted to talk about me at the top of their lungs. And they took pictures of me while I was sleep. And you know what's the worst part? I get really, really airsick.
~ Amanda Schull
Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
No I am not all right!" Chrestomanci said, after five minutes of this. "I have worldwide blisters. I need a shave. I'm tired out and I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast yesterday. Would you feel alright in my position?
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Me encuentro mal, como si tuviera un gran peso en el pecho. - Un corazón es una pesada carga.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Not even Spock had stayed aboard for that—he found breathing vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically unpleasant.
~ Diane Duane
This makes me feel ritually unclean.
~ Don DeLillo
His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness.
~ Donna Tartt
Pepto-Bismol straight from the bottle.
~ Donna Tartt
The cab smelled like curry, cigarettes, and body odor, and the safety glass between me and the driver had cracks in it.
~ J.A. Konrath
I bent over to give my hair another shake, and glanced at my boots, along with the several dozen roaches climbing up them. Then I felt them inside the boots, between the suede and the naked skin of my calves. I
~ J.A. Konrath
I'm guessing GoLYTELY isn't a taste sensation." "They claim it's chocolate-flavored. More like chalk-flavored. I'd rather drink a gallon of paint.
~ J.A. Konrath
A deep sense of struggle, a vast amount of mental discomfort from it, are no proof that a man is not sanctified. A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace." - Holiness (p. 125)
~ J.C. Ryle
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. ROBERT ALLEN
~ Jack Canfield
Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.
~ Jack Canfield
I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.
~ Jack Johnson
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.
~ Jack Kornfield
A thin spider web of sweat draped itself over his forehead, spreading into his hair.
~ Unknown
For some people, a fixed state of irritation is oxygen. I understand this all too well.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
en blekgul sol som verkade ha försvagats av överansträngning. Men det var soligt i alla fall, vilket var trevligt och lindrade min hemlängtan. Så när jag såg att solen sken klev jag upp och satte mig en klänning. Det var helt fel. Solen sken visserligen men det var kallt i luften. Det var mitten av januari men jag kände inte till att solen kunde skina utan att det blev varmt. Det hade ingen upplyst mig om.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I really really don't want to die here, among these criminally ugly furnishings.
~ Unknown
You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time.
~ Unknown
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.
~ Unknown
It makes all the difference whether you hear an insect in the bedroom or in the garden. In the garden the voice of the insect soothes; in the bedroom it irritates. In the garden it is the hum of spring; in the bedroom it seems to belong to the same school of music as the buzz of the dentist's drill or the saw-mill.
~ Unknown