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Quotes About Discomfort

Annabeth looked at me. We have to get out of here. You think I want to be in the girls' restroom? I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship. Smells bad, Tyson agreed. And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship.
~ Rick Riordan
He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
~ Rick Riordan
I got ready for bed and crawled in. The covers were comfortable and warm, but the pillow was just too weird. It gave me neck cramps, so I put it on the floor and went to sleep without it. My first big mistake.
~ Rick Riordan
AWWW, YOU two are so cute together it makes me sick. So I'm going back to my own room." I'm not sure Mallory and Halfborn even heard me when I left, they were lip-locking so hard. Seeing them like that almost made me miss Magnus. Almost.
~ Rick Riordan
Uuugggggghhhhh...
~ Rick Riordan
I have always felt loneliest in the presence of other people—people I can't connect with, people I feel unseen by, people who make me feel insincere or uncomfortable. For me, loneliness comes from a sense of missing something. I never miss anything when I'm alone.
~ Kate Christensen
Es bonito que alguien te adore. Aunque en ocasiones es incómodo.
~ Katherine Paterson
who don't hate you or wish you any harm, but who nevertheless shudder at the very thought of you—of how you were brought into this world and why—and who dread the idea of your hand brushing against theirs. The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We hadn't been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we  would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There were no butterflies, just extreme discomfort because comfort is uncomfortable to someone more acquainted with pain than love.
~ Keisha Ervin
Chloe isn't flirting with that guy," Simon said. "Course not." "I mean it. She's—" I glanced back at him. "I'm not blind. She's only paying enough attention to him to be polite. He's the one flirting, which is bugging her and that's why I'm pissed off. She's trying to eat her fries and he's interrupting." Simon chuckled.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.
~ Les Dawson
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
~ William Morris
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
~ William Shakespeare
'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.Rancor will out.
~ William Shakespeare
It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
~ William Shakespeare
I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.
~ William Styron
I got to pee.
~ Winston Groom
They say it'll be even hotter tomorrow. that's how we spend the summer. complaining about the heat.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
We all share these wishes. But also the way we look for happiness and try to avoid discomfort is the same. Who among us does not enjoy a delicious meal? Who does not wish to sleep in a safe, comfortable bed? Author, monk—or stray kitten—we are all equal in that." Across the coffee table, the history professor shifted in his seat. "Most of all," the Dalai Lama said, leaning over and stroking me with his index finger, "all of us just want to be loved.
~ David Michie
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
~ David Nicholls
There's a particular grubbiness that comes with travel. You start showered and fresh in clean and comfortable clothes, upbeat and hopeful that this will be like travel in the movies; sunlight flaring on the windows, heads resting on shoulders, laughter and smiles with a lightly jazzy soundtrack. But in reality the grubbiness has set in
~ David Nicholls
Father, I have wind. This activity centre leaves me jaded. I am colicky.
~ David Nicholls
Harpaz argumenta que las escuelas tienen que convertir lo extraño en algo conocido para presentar a los alumnos conocimientos nuevos, pero también volver lo familiar extraño, que incomode y desafíe las ideas simples y las respuestas insustanciales, un proceso delicado que tiene que detenerse justo cuando esté a punto de que el receptor adopte una postura defensiva rotunda.
~ David Perkins