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Quotes About Discomfort

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy.
~ T. Harv Eker
A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.
~ Tahir Shah
I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.
~ Tama Janowitz
and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.
~ Tama Janowitz
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
~ Tennessee Williams
Lo único cierto era el peso en la boca del estómago la sospecha física de que algo no andaba bien, de que casi nunca había andando bien.
~ Julio Cortazar
Cuando a uno lo sacan de sus hábitos es como el pescado fuera del agua –dijo el doctor Restelli, mirando su vaso–. Estoy muy acostumbrado al mate dulce de las cuatro, sabe.
~ Julio Cortazar
And I am not pleased I am not very pleased None of this fits into my notion of "things going very well
~ June Jordan
Jesus, Oscar, Rudolfo said nervously. You look like they put a shirt on a turd
~ Junot Diaz
just the thought of some temporary discomfort was enough to keep him from the spiritual adventure of a lifetime.
~ K.P. Yohannan
uh oh I shit myself
~ Kaitlin Bennett
I always think it would be great to play clubs again, and then when I do I don't like it because I just feel sometimes it's a bit too intimate.
~ Gary Moore
I can't invest in areas of comfort.
~ Steve Jurvetson
I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'
~ Bat for Lashes
I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.
~ Jimmy Fallon
Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
~ Francine Rivers
After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.
~ Frank Kusy
Life is a wince-a-thon.
~ Frank Portman
My last conscious thought was that although I lay in squalor, my mouth was minty fresh.
~ Bradley Denton
Excruciating agony makes me cranky.
~ Brandon Mull
Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Isn't that tough?" Wayne called. "Like Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I once hadda eat twenty sausages for a bet. Won five notes, but spent an hour on the ground moaning like a fellow on the pot tryin' to force a mango through his delicate doughnut, if you catch my meaning.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Silence spread from him like a bad smell.
~ Brandon Sanderson
It was just that…well, she had trouble explaining it, even to herself. Ham's innocent gesture made her want to squirm. It seemed to her that people shouldn't be so casual with the way that they touched others.
~ Brandon Sanderson