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Quotes About Discomfort

You may also freeze around inauthentic people, which can convey aloofness — but this is clearly a protective device. Some empaths prefer socializing online to keep others at a distance, so there's less of the tendency to absorb their discomfort and stress.
~ Judith Orloff
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
~ Jules Renard
She grimaced. Her mother and father were probably giggling and whispering and ducking into a darkened corner. Good heavens. It was downright embarrassing.
~ Julia Quinn
There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.
~ Mick Foley
Any type of discomfort is going to alter the way I throw the ball. If I alter the way I throw the ball, I run the risk of major injury to my arm.
~ Max Scherzer
I don't care how small or big they are, insects freak me out.
~ Alexander Wang
galloping gut-rot.
~ Faith Martin
Comfort is the enemy of achievement.
~ Farrah Gray
We never sought exotic forms of discomfort; they were part of a package deal that came with our homeland.
~ Firoozeh Dumas
I was miserable. I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child too. I hadn't known that before. I thought I was just short.
~ Florence King
Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.
~ Florian Coulmas
and it's tricky because she always makes me feel like, well, you know what it's like, when somebody's watching you and you feel it like dead leaves down the back of your sweater...
~ Frances Hardinge
I hate sand. It just fucking sticks to me and makes me uncomfortable.
~ Billy Connolly
The whole place had a feel and aura about as warm as a cold sore.
~ Harlan Coben
He started to feel better. Or to say the same thing in another way: He started to feel less. His eyes slowly swerved from side to side. He felt, as he did in most places, slightly out of place—a spy in enemy territory. He was not really comfortable anywhere anymore—his old softer world or his new hardened one. So he straddled both. Truth was, he was only comfortable—pitiful as it sounded—when he was with Olivia. Damn
~ Harlan Coben
The receptionist wore a hideous wig and looked at us as though we'd just plopped out of a dog's behind. I
~ Harlan Coben
The cast on his leg had been enormous and about as comfortable as wearing a jockstrap made of tweed. He hobbled around for months, listening to Sara tease him. "Stop imitating my limp. It's not a very nice thing to do." "Great.
~ Harlan Coben
The arm was the worst of it; it felt as though it'd been mangled by a tiger and then jammed into a blender set on pulverize. A blacksmith was mercilessly using her skull as an anvil. Her tongue and mouth had the dryness of both the Sahara and the worst hangover imaginable. Megan
~ Harlan Coben
Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben.
~ Harlan Ellison
You aren't thin-hided, it just makes you sick, doesn't it?
~ Harper Lee
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere
~ Harper Lee
I just don't like my world disturbed without warning.
~ Harper Lee
Throwing up was no big deal. It was a lot less painful than hemorrhoids or tooth decay, and more refined than diarrhea
~ Haruki Murakami
Bridget: Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.
~ Helen Fielding