Quotes About Discomfort

Then he said, "Strange…," which is something you never want to hear from either your palm-reader or your dentist.

There is nothing more abominable than being in a state of bodily exhaustion and mental irritation; I was too lethargic to get up and seek some means of occupying my mind, but I was too uneasy to fall asleep.

at the time there were moments of extreme discomfort; but the adventure, the danger, the exhilaration of doubt and peril are in retrospect something I rather regret having lost.

unnecessary discomfort is a form of martyrdom with which I have no sympathy.

This is great fun,' she said as he gripped her hand, and she successfully hid the agony caused by her fingers and her rings being crushed together. 'It's heaven,' said Christopher. 'No, no, that's not nearly such fun as—just fun,' she said, furtively rubbing her released hand and making a note in her mind not to wear rings next time her strong young friend was likely to say how do you do.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Whites simply do not experience either what have come to be called the 'micro-aggressions' of everyday racism—habitually being followed by security guards in department stores is one extremely familiar experience; noticing the discomfort of white people in your presence is another

she was crooning to herself: "Oh, my back and oh, my bones ! Oh, my back and oh, my bones!

I can no longer find any rationale for living. My life is as small as a firefly's. I am always uncomfortable; often I suffer.

After all, the word "travel" comes from the Latin "trepalium." Which, loosely translated, means "instrument of torture.

I would not like to pass another night in the open, even with Maerad the Unpredictable to protect us; and my head is sore as a bear's.

Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama.

He was nearly home, and he was experiencing in full the phenomenon of something unpleasant becoming far more so when one need not endure it much longer.

A mí, lo que me gusta en la vida son las molestias autorizadas. Como las víctimas no tienen derecho a defenderse, resultan todavía más divertidas

La gêne est un étrange défaut du centre de gravité : n'est capable de l'éprouver qu'une personne dont le noyau est demeuré flottant. Les êtres solidement centrés ne comprennent pas de quoi il s'agit. La gêne suppose une hypertrophie de la perception de l'autre, d'où la politesse des gens gênés, qui ne vivent qu'en fonction d'autrui.

The most uncomfortable costumes have been when you've had to wear a corset.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

I'm not a fan of 3D as an audience member. I'm too old for it. I don't like wearing the glasses over my glasses.

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.

I like warm weather but not this sticky, humid heat of New York.