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Quotes About Discomfort

She was fifteen years old and her life pinched her like an ill-fitting shoe.
~ Philip Reeve
How should I remember the child's name? It was fifteen, sixteen years ago and I have never liked babies; nasty creatures, leak at both ends and have no respect for ceramics.
~ Philip Reeve
Erano indefinibili e questo creava maggior imbarazzo.
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
When I use my vocal cords, it kind of feels like what it feels like when you put your shoes on the wrong foot.
~ The D.O.C.
Brexit makes me uncomfortable. It feels like we're in no-man's-land, and it doesn't feel safe. People who voted to leave did so because of the scaremongering. It was all about immigration, but immigration is a great thing.
~ Nadiya Hussain
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
~ Anne Lamott
I don't like taking showers in the locker room after a match.
~ Grigor Dimitrov
It is really awkward to see myself on screen.
~ Suraj Sharma
If I'm not comfortable, I just look awkward.
~ Gia Coppola
I hate Q&As. They make me feel awkward.
~ Zal Batmanglij
It's very awkward to watch yourself on TV because I hate the sound of my voice. It's those moments where you're like, 'I do that?'
~ Bianca Del Rio
I get seasick quite badly.
~ Boyan Slat
There is nothing worse than sitting in a ballpark and somebody is vomiting behind you.
~ Oliver Luck
As an actor, I am not comfortable with an artificial beard.
~ Pankaj Kapur
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Wow, thank you so much for the compliment! Patty answered brightly, to end things. At the time, she believed that it was because she was so selflessly team-spirited that direct personal compliments made her so uncomfortable. The autobiographer now thinks that compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.
~ Jonathan Franzen
What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so happy to live in
~ Jonathan Franzen
the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
~ Jonathan Franzen
In the elevator it seemed to Enid that the ship was suffering not only from a seesaw motion but also from a yaw, as if its bow were the face of someone experiencing repugnance.
~ Jonathan Franzen
ticklers bearing down on Kim Perkins, David Goya pissed off at them.
~ Jonathan Franzen
They rode an elevator in silence. Too-precipitous intimacy had left in its wake a kind of dirty awkwardness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Embarrassment is the Parmalat of emotions.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Happiness is pretty boring, hard to take - in a word, a pain in the neck.
~ Jorge Amado
Blusterous -- adj. a word used to describe those Atmospheric Conditions in which one's ears are adversely affected {and possibly one's house}.
~ A.R. Melrose