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Quotes About Discomfort

I like ice cream, I don't like pain.
~ Forrest Griffin
I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
~ Christoph Waltz
Lord, how come she asking me this now? A colony of ants starts crawling all over my scalp, but I'm too afraid to attack them in case she interprets my discomfort. This is too much. Anything is a big word that can accommodate all things, and every thing, and some thing that, yes, she needs to know eventually, but it ain't easy giving voice to the love that brings shame .
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-healed shoes--I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them .. Thelma Rae Goodpepper in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
But lately," she said, wiggling her bare toes, "I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.
~ beth hoffman
This "betwixt and between" period is like living in a hallway of "divine discomfort." We know at some level that we need to let go, but we're not quite ready to do so yet. As bad as it might feel, this discomfort is often necessary to eventually move us into doing what we need to do. To this end, our unease is a gift.
~ Betty Hill Crowson
In order to prevent chronic discomfort, Whites may learn not to notice. But in not noticing, one loses opportunities for greater insight into oneself and one's experience. A significant dimension of who one is in the world, one's Whiteness, remains uninvestigated and perceptions of daily experience are routinely distorted. Privilege goes unnoticed, and all but the most blatant acts of racial bigotry are ignored. Not noticing requires energy.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Many hide their need to be in control behind the banner of "staying anchored to the Word of God." By rejecting those who differ from them, they successfully protect themselves from discomfort, and from the change for which they've been praying.
~ Bill Johnson
Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.
~ Fred Armisen
Part of what I've tried to do since I became 'Hangman' is try to give back to the world because I know I can make people feel a little more uncomfortable than maybe most wrestlers do.
~ Adam Page
I learned to associate discomfort with getting better. And that transcended wrestling and applied to a lot of other things in life.
~ Tim Ferriss
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
~ Fanny Kemble
I have some issues that I don't know if they will become issues. I have some things in my head, I forget things. I can't turn my head a lot or my brain crashes. I have back and wrist pain.
~ Wanderlei Silva
I get sharp pains in my wrist and fingers.
~ Daffney
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
~ Stephen King
She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.
~ Gregory Maguire
I have tried travel. The loneliness which one feels in strange places terrified me.
~ Guy de Maupassant
How strange it is that a simple feeling of discomfort, of impeded or heightened circulation, perhaps the irritation of a nervous center, a slight congestion, a small disturbance in the imperfect and delicate functions of our living machinery, can turn the most light-hearted of men into a melancholy one, and make a coward of the bravest?
~ Guy de Maupassant
the abnormal alway excites aversion, distrust, and fear
~ H.P. Lovecraft
abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.
~ H.P. Lovecraft