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Quotes About Discomfort

Why did I feel warmed by imperfections, discomfort, and patina? Because intense living leaves scars, and I could not find such scars anywhere in America. Inner scars, softened, human wear and tear.
~ Anais Nin
I hated the homes, the families, all the places where man thinks to find rest.
~ Andre Gide
Svaka vrlo jaka osetljivost može, prema tome da li je organizam otporan ili slab, postati, ja bar mislim, uzrok uživanja ili neugodnosti.
~ Andre Gide
The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.
~ Andre Dubus III
uncomfortable like this,' the
~ Andrea Camilleri
For example, evangelicals' discomfort with condoms and sex education has led the administration to policies that are likely to lead to more people dying of AIDS at home and abroad, not to mention more pregnancies and abortions.
~ Sam Harris
Bein with them is like walking in after a play has already started. You try to slip in quietly and find your seat, but people turn around, give you dirty looks, and whisper to their neighbors about how rude you are.
~ Samantha Schutz
My nights are flatulent and unquiet.
~ Samuel Johnson
Look. I know you're just trying to make friendly conversation to fill an awkward silence between strangers, but I'm not big on friendly conversation, and I don't find silences awkward. In fact I like silences and prefer strangers.
~ Sandra Brown
Afrodisíacos en la sopa. Oscar recordó vagamente una cena con velas y vino preparada por Natalia. Después del postre había sentido una comezón en el área púbica seguida de una leve indigestión. Y eso había sido todo.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
I'd much rather be eating a bar of chocolate or even something healthy like a lettuce leaf alone at my desk than sitting through this silent, painful meal.
~ Sarah Darer Littman
My thesis is that at many levels of human interaction there is the opportunity to conflate discomfort with threat, to mistake internal anxiety for exterior danger, and in turn to escalate rather than resolve.
~ Sarah Schulman
Oh fuck. It's like period pain in my head. It's toothache of the brain.
~ Scarlett Thomas
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.
~ John Barrymore
If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.
~ John Berry
I hate grunge. It was the worst period of my life.
~ Polly Allen Mellen
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
~ Edward Gorey
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.
~ Edward P. Jones
Ik rende naar de badkamer en kotste alles er boven de wasbak weer uit. Dat luchtte op. Ik spoelde mijn mond en strompelde terug naar het bed. Even later hoorde ik mijn vader roepen: 'Shit, Max, shít! Kon je het niet even opruimen?' 'Pa,' zei ik, 'ik ben ziek.' 'Het stinkt! Ik laat het wel liggen!' 'Jij laat niks liggen!' riep mijn moeder van beneden.
~ Edward van de Vendel
feel ridiculous," she muttered. "And I feel like a jerk for getting thrown
~ Eileen Goudge
For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the critical dismay with which I first greet the sight of new places.
~ Elaine Dundy
The pain woke him again. Not the constant throb that was so familiar he could hardly remember being without it. This was one of those sharp stabs from the wound along his thigh.
~ Eleanor Updale
Corrado lhe disse: que foi Vittò, você está doente, está com uma cara feia, e ela respondeu: sim, estou doente no coração, no peito, no ventre, estou com uma cara horrível.
~ Elena Ferrante
Era la desigualtat el que feia que els estudis fossin molt penosos per a alguns (per a mi, per exemple), gairebé una diversió per a d'altres (per al Pietro, per exemple)
~ Elena Ferrante