Quotes About Discomfort

Opioids can deliver you, if only for a few minutes, from physical or emotional pain, from discomfort, from anxiety, from need. It is like no other human experience. "I'll die young," the comedian Lenny Bruce once said of his own addiction. "But it's like kissing God." (He did die young, naked on his bathroom floor, from a morphine overdose, at forty.)

For the last few hours I could feel myself growing less drunk and more hungover by slow degrees. I'd never been awake through the entire process before, and it was not pleasant.

We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

I sit in a thickly padded char that, much like this country, isn't quite as comfortable as it looks.

I sit in a thickly padded chair that, much like this country, isn't quite as comfortable as it looks.

cognitive dissonance.

Change is hard. That's why propelling away from discomfort is easier than moving toward a fantasy goal.

Rose and Ash were the kind of sickeningly cute couple that made Gin want to puke, especially when they acted all weird, doing things they thought were hilarious, but were just stupid as far she was concerned. Gin didn't know why Rose embarrassed herself in public like that.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck

Our understanding of the world is shaped by a hunger for narrative that rises out of our discomfort with ambiguity and arbitrary events. When surprising things happen, we search for an explanation. The urge to resolve ambiguity can be surprisingly potent, even when the subject is inconsequential.

As quite distinct from Jewish interpretation, the history of modern evangelical interpretation exhibits a strong degree of discomfort with the tensions and ambiguities of Scripture.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

The xenophobic form sees Jews as different from others in some observable respects, and its adherents exhibit varying degrees of discomfort with this difference. The chimerical form sees Jews as dangerous to others in some imagined ways, and its exponents advocate doing something in response.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Elisha fixed his gaze steadily on him until Hazael became uncomfortable. Then the man of God began to weep.

So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonahís head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.