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Quotes About Discomfort

She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
~ Mark Twain
By the woman's make, her plant has to be out of service three days in the month and during a part of her pregnancy. These are times of discomfort, often of suffering. For fair and just compensation she has the high privilege of unlimited adultery all the other days of her life.
~ Mark Twain
she was as welcome as a corpse is to a coroner.
~ Mark Twain
We only sit there now. Audrey and me. And discomfort. Squeezed in, between us. She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed." "I know." You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.
~ Markus Zusak
The yawn of a girl can be so beautiful it makes you cringe.
~ Markus Zusak
In anxiety one feels uncanny .
~ Martin Heidegger
That hurts my pride, Watson.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Modern travel would be totally delightful if only I could learn to enjoy boredom, discomfort, and fatigue.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I sank into my seat, my face hot.
~ Atul Gawande
she began to lose her appetite, and strong odors became intolerable.
~ Atul Gawande
it was clear that he still felt uneasy.
~ Atul Gawande
Then she asked a series of questions, targeting issues that tend to arise in patients with terminal illness. Did Cox have pain? How was her appetite, thirst, sleeping? Any trouble with confusion, anxiety, or restlessness? Had her shortness of breath grown worse? Was there chest pain or heart palpitations? Abdominal discomfort? Trouble with constipation or urination or walking?
~ Atul Gawande
No wonder I had found that woman so offensive. Sometimes things feel that bad. Sometimes you just feel like shit.
~ Augusten Burroughs
It's very uncomfortable to be a hero, Joel, and you don't have the figure for it.
~ Ayn Rand
p. 62 ...meditation… exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are. Restlessness and lethargy are ways of evading the discomfort of this contradiction.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Maybe this is the way things are supposed to be but it doesn't feel right
~ Stephen Chbosky
And it all felt very unsettling to me.
~ Stephen Chbosky
You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term discomfort.
~ Stephen Fry
they that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Comfort without action is only discomfort and dissatisfaction in latent action. It always seems we shall have a good tomorrow until a bad tomorrow comes
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
~ Evan Esar
Oh, I'm terrible at travel.
~ Johnny Vegas
You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone . . . There is a hunger in you, Clark. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do. Just live well. Just live.
~ Jojo Moyes
You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.
~ Jojo Moyes