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Quotes About Discomfort

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.
~ Steven Wright
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
~ Kim Stanley
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
~ Terry Pratchett
I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
She shuddered. "What is it with slobbery kissers? Are they trying to drown us in spit? I mean, Jesus, swallow every now and then.
~ Tammara Webber, Easy
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.
~ Holly Black
Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--
~ David Nicholls, One Day
Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn't as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I looked down. I was dripping onto the floor, a mix of blood and fluid. I hate it when I leak.
~ Martha Wells
My human parts were experiencing a cold prickling that wasn't comfortable. This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn't help.
~ Martha Wells
I just had a bad feeling about the little shit.
~ Martha Wells
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until noveltyt and entertainmet are built up as positive experiences.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
Seven out of ten people suffer from hemmorhoids. Does this mean that the other three enjoy it.
~ Unknown
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
~ Fran Lebowitz
She tugged on her sleeves again. He could tell the dress was bothering her something fierce. Well, he could understand that. He'd've been mighty uncomfortable in a dress himself, and she was probably no more used to a dress than he was.
~ Mary Connealy
Ik wil een normaal gesprek met je voeren en omdat jij zo lang bent, kan ik dat niet doen als je er niet bij gaat zitten. Dan krijg ik kramp in mijn nek. - Silvia
~ Mary Hoffman
I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.
~ Mary Roach
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Endurance sports are largely about discomfort and stress; hence they are largely about coping.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
To become the best athlete you can be, you need to become really good at coping with the characteristic forms of discomfort and stress that the endurance sports experience dishes out, beginning with perceived effort and extending to the many challenges that are secondary to it, such as fear of failure.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
I do not like wearing clothes," I said, with quite delicate precision. "They chafe. They are uncomfortable around my genitals." And then, remembering all I had learned from Cosmopolitan magazine, I leaned in toward them and added what I thought would be the clincher. "They may seriously hinder my chances of achieving a tantric full-body orgasm.
~ Matt Haig
The thought was like a ceaseless mind-cramp, something too uncomfortable to bear yet too strong to avoid.
~ Matt Haig
Get out of your comfort zone and into your discomfort zone. That's where real change begins.
~ Unknown