Quotes About Discomfort

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.

Zimska jutra su napravljena od ?elika, imaju metana okus i oštre rubove. U srijedu, u sedam ujutro, u sije?nju, vidi se da svijet nije stvoren za ?ovjeka , a posve sigurno ne za njegovu ugodu i zadovoljstvo." str. 117.

Verso il denaro nutro una specie di rancore misto a disagio, verso la miseria un odio misto a ribrezzo, per i falsi apostoli dell'uguaglianza un disprezzo illimitato.

There's something about you that smells a little of a Christian priest. I find it offensive.

These wounds, unlike the scars from the lashing a man might give, cut inwards very deep, like an internal hemorrhage, bringing intense discomfort.

There has to be uncomfortable element in the discourse of anything to change.

For inconsistent and slovenly thought can abide indefinitely in error without any feeling of discomfort.

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies.

Comfort is the enemy of progress

que busca la verdad da un chingo de lata, pero su fin justifica las molestias…

Só se é revolucionário quando se está disposto a deixar todas as comodidades para ir lutar em outro país.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

You don't say, "I'm sorry,"' he says. 'Getting injections, and experiencing pain, is part of life. There's no reason to apologize for that.' He seems to be channelling Rousseau, who said, 'If by too much care you spare them every kind of discomfort, you are preparing great miseries for them.' (I'm not sure what Rousseau thought about suppositories.)

the backs of my heels were raw with weeping blisters

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

It felt weird to exchange a smile with Honey, so I stopped as soon as I could.

That was uncomfortable.Am I dead? No such luck

It seems I am fated always to be wading through the shite, thought Becket a few hours later, coughing and trying not to breathe through his nose. Before him stretched a foul plain down to the Thames mudflats, lined with long dykes. The nearest steamed gently before him: a dunghill of magnificent, epic size. Stench of piss and shit many weeks old was making the air blue above them and the number of different mephitic and disease-laden odours hardly bore thinking about.

In a widely cited piece titled "The Middle-Class Black's burden," Ms. McClain laments, "I am not comfortably middle class; I am uncomfortably middle class. I have made it, but where?

Trying to fuck you is like trying to French kiss a very small and lively gerbil. With braces.

Taoism shares quite a few similarities with Buddhism and Stoicism—Buddhism is about releasing all attachments, where Stoicism is about acknowledging and growing from discomfort. Together, these philosophies create an incredibly resilient mind.

It is essentially an act of avoiding discomfort (i.e. the trouble of doing the intended task) and pursuing pleasure instead (i.e. substituting more enjoyable activities, plus the relief of not having to engage in the intended task).

I don't think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it's not a little uncomfortable, then it's not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

she said and gives me this look you'd think she was dying for a shite but was holding it in.