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Quotes About Discomfort

Inside my head, I shit my pants.
~ Max Allan Collins
Will your hearts always be aching? Is that what you are asking me?" Goodman shifted in discomfort. "Something like that," he said. "Yes," said the counselor in a suddenly plangent voice. "Always they will be aching. I wish I could tell you something else, but I wouldn't be telling the truth. My wise and gentle friends, this is the way it will be from now on." No one could say anything. "We are so, so fucked," Jules finally said,
~ Meg Wolitzer
I got used to being uncomfortable, and I internalized the idea that my mentioning my discomfort made me fussy—"The princess and the pea," my mother once said, in irritation, making it clear that I was demanding too much when I complained.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
I have to say it's a bit traumatic at times, not knowing when the next penis will appear.
~ Melina Marchetta
I hate pantyhose. Although I occasionally wear Control Top because I've found there's no quicker way to flatten my tummy, and shut down my whole digestive tract.
~ Unknown
I know I'm not okay. I am nose to nose with a fire and it's too hot. I want to fix the fire—as if the fire itself were uncomfortable, as if the discomfort I feel were not my own.
~ Unknown
Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.
~ Michael Buckley
It was the middle of the night, and Bingo couldn't sleep. The ground was hard, but he was used to that. . . .His blanket was dirty and smelled disgusting, but he was used to that too. A tune kept going through his head, and he couldn't get it out of his mind. It was the Wendels' victory song.
~ Unknown
James Baldwin's "Stranger in the Village" (1953) describes a winter's stay in an isolated Swiss hamlet called Leukerbad. I have known that essay almost as long as I've known Faulkner's own work, and I never reread it without a sense of profound discomfort, an uneasiness with American life and my own cushioned place within it.
~ Unknown
armed, Crosetti found, felt a lot like having a broken zipper on your fly, something that made you feel self-conscious and
~ Michael Gruber
The thing most of them had in common was that a woman could argue she felt uncomfortable as a potential victim of masculinity. Yet feeling uncomfortable is not dangerous. "Feeling discomfort" is not hostile but in most cases, it is a positive challenge to the psyche, a method of self-appraisal, an invitation to civil argument, and a part of the maturation process of human beings.
~ Michael Gurian
This level of emotional integration is only possible when we decrease our pain and discomfort to a point where we view all emotion as "energy in motion," instead of deeming some emotions as threatening and to be avoided, while we find others so seductive that we are driven uncontrollably into activity because of them.
~ Michael L. Brown
Three reasons: you need to know how the technique fails, you need to be able to perform it under stress, and you have to lose your fear of discomfort." Discomfort. He means my fear of pain.
~ Unknown
Thus acupressure focuses on relieving pain and discomfort as well as on responding to tension before it develops into a "dis-ease," that is, before the constrictions and imbalances can do further damage.
~ Unknown
Seasick," Scatty mumbled. "That's exactly what it feels like. Only worse.
~ Michael Scott
Il se sentait comme une boîte de bière écrasée sous les pieds d'un hooligan britannique, ou comme un beefsteak abandonné dans le compartiment légumes d'un réfrigérateur bas de gamme, enfin il ne se sentait pas très bien.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Cuando desaparece la sexualidad, lo que aparece es el cuerpo del otro, con su presencia vagamente hostil; los ruidos, los movimientos, los olores; y la presencia misma de ese cuerpo que ya no podemos tocar, ni santificar mediante el contacto, se convierte poco a poco en algo incómodo; desgraciadamente, nada de esto es nuevo.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Leggermente a disagio per questa confessione, Jean-Yves si voltò verso di me: "E tu, Michel, cosa conti di fare qui?". La risposta più vicina alla realtà era sicuramente qualcosa sul genere: "Niente", ma è sempre un po' difficile spiegare questo tipo di cose alle persone attive.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Everything hurts.
~ Michelangelo
This is going to be a little uncomfortable
~ Unknown
No...I...I had this spicy Mexican food last night. It's only a bad case of heartburn. I don't need an exorcism. i need some Pepto-Bismo!
~ Unknown
Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.
~ Unknown
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.
~ Miguel de Cervantes