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Quotes About Discomfort

A man you've had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore.
~ Sei Sh?nagon
Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.
~ Seth Godin
God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.
~ Shane Claiborne
Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?
~ Shannon Hale
It was different with him. It was as though he was naked to embarrass *me.* It was so strange how Khasar just stood there and laughed at my discomfort. So strange, and I was too afraid to do anything, even to look away. Then the last of the sunlight faded, and I realized why he'd taken off his clothes. It was so they wouldn't rip.
~ Shannon Hale
Helen had to blink a couple of times before she could stop staring and felt her face warm with embarrassment. There was nowhere to look that that wasn't filled with either man pretty or man manly, so she decided she was better looking at the kitchen floor.
~ Shannon K. Butcher
She wished that she dared take a nap; she was tired, and her back hurt, though not enough to make her swear that she was going to find whoever'd thought it would be a good idea to get pregnant and dislocate their jaw.
~ Sharon Lee
The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.
~ Shaun Hutson
I thought it was bad when they made me wear this Jane Austen–suitor outfit, complete with cravat. But you! You look like you just escaped the set of Braveheart.
~ Shelly Laurenston
It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.
~ Greg Behrendt
I had twins, so it was really uncomfortable [to sleep], because you lay on one side, and there's a baby, and you lay on the other side and there's a baby. So I had a really hard time with it.
~ Jennifer Lopez
You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.
~ Joni Rodgers
Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.
~ Mary Balogh
I have the headache and am feeling blue-deviled.
~ Mary Balogh
The pay was crap. My boss was an idiot. And the final straw was that she wanted me to demonstrate a colon cleanse. On the air." Billy sniggered. "Talk about a shitty assignment.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Dammit, I gotta go," Clint rasped. He slid off the bed, and faltered. His gown bunched at the waist and Greer looked away, but not before glimpsing something she knew she could never unsee.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
the act of vomiting deserves your respect. It's an orchestral event of the gut.
~ Mary Roach
A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
we are also creatures with a fear of approaching others because we are afraid of the unknown and cannot totally predict how a stranger will respond to our approach, or to the first words that pour out of our mouths. This oxymoronic fact made me wonder why and how can we get past this strange awkwardness or discomfort. After
~ Matt Morris
We get nervous or anxious when talking to new people. It is because people are generally uncomfortable with the unknown. You
~ Matt Morris
Hot tea, he said, holding the cups. It's just wrong.
~ Maureen Johnson
She saw the man below looking at her, she saw the insolent hint of amusement tell her that he knew she did not want him to look at her now. She turned her head away.
~ Ayn Rand
One of those hot, rainy days where you feel like you're breathing your own breath out of a paper bag.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Meg swore and hopped, nursing a bruised toe.
~ Barbara Michaels