Quotes About Discomfort

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

He had come to Austin because he needed something, and she wanted him as uncomfortable as possible while he asked for whatever it was.

Maybe this is hell, I thought: alone in my house in the middle of the night, stuck in an endless loop of thermal discomfort.

looking about as pleased as if I'd just announced that I had tested positive for syphilis.

It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

I can't face the idea of riding home on a busful of sweaty, smiling teeth sucking up my oxygen.

One night the cook served us beans and more beans for dinner. Instead of sleeping, we farted all night long, which caused

I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.

Bitter cups of coffee, my life and my trip measured out like Prufrock's in coffee spoons, clothes sweaty, smelly, bra strap digging into flesh, eyes reddened, gritty as if circled with sand, sour taste in mouth, intermittent heartburn

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

The cost of survival of the lineage may be a lifetime of discomfort.

I used to lie in a lover's arms getting a stiff neck, or needing to scratch my nose, or losing all sensation in my arm, unwilling to move lest the man find out I wasn't comfortable in his embrace...Would Snow White have rested all eight pounds of her head on any part of the prince? I doubt it, and I never did either. Sarah says that is why elderly women have such prominent cords in their necks.

In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.

Temporary discomfort pales in the face of long-term awakening.

It hurts," she said.

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.

He said 'That! Put that in your purse! I don't like that!' when I took off my brassiere. It remained there, though, curled up on his wooden floor, curled awkwardly for a piece of clothing, not awkwardly if it had been something else perhaps, a creature. "Idea

heyecan?n mutluluÄŸu and?ran tuhaf bir ac?ya dönüÅŸtüÄŸünü hissediyordu.

Three-quarters of the way down the aisle another stewardess, somewhat older and more harried and human, placed me in my seat amid a gigantic Puerto Rican family on its way home for the holidays. (When I say gigantic, I do not mean to imply that any of them were tall.) (Nor do I mean to imply, by that disclaimer, that any of them were thin. I was a bit squeezed.)

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Life begin at the end of your Comfort Zone. So if you're feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a begining, not an ending