Quotes About Discomfort

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." —Chinese proverb

The air conditioner hadn't worked all summer. Naturally, jokes had been made about how this must be a foretaste of hell.

If I'm at a party where I'm not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

When I watch roasts, I actually feel physically uncomfortable, like when I see a crow feast on a squirrel that has been hit by a car buy has not stopped moving yet.

On TV I loved Mickey Mouse, but when I met the actual real-life Mickey, or rather, his impersonator, and he tried to hug me in his warm, fuzzy suit, I recoiled in fear.

Para sentir placer necesitamos el no-confort. Se disfruta de comer cuando se siente hambre. A medida que nuestras sociedades son más y más confortables, es más y más difícil disfrutar. Por eso buscamos vacaciones de ese confort, para volver a sentir placer por comer arroz cocido, beber agua casi potable o abrigarse con un saco de dormir.

Ever since the New Deal, those on the Right have sensed the American polity's transformation with growing discomfort, but around 2009, when the Tea Party movement mobilized, that discomfort turned to anger.

That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

Past environmental changes were mostly local and reversible. Today, human activities have a global reach. We are changing our planet in radical ways, and we may not have the wherewithal to respond to the challenges ahead, at least not without enduring a good deal of discomfort and dislocation. Moreover, some of these changes—like sea level rise and the melting of Arctic ice—are almost certainly irreversible.

Please leave, Pierce thought, glaring at Morrow. Please get out of here so my left leg can jerk in peace.

He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Sympathy toward me would demand self examination and the questioning of their values, with the discomfort that brings. Their hearts were not large enough to withstand that kind of scrutiny.

it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.

a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...

It seemed that both had lately had a touch of that pain under the waistband which comes of a sedentary life.

I must have dislocated my pelvis!" -Rurouni

Even the rickshaw coolie, given, to be on the safe side, double his normal fee, takes the money in grim silence and immediately looks away. It is most uncomfortable to feel oneself as an object of this universal detestation , a mere foreign-devil in fact.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it's plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.