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Quotes About Discomfort

Lent survives as a much moderated version of this self-imposed discomfort.
~ James Dale Davidson
At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable.
~ James Howe
I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
~ James Patterson
He wiped his nose with his sleeve. Gross me out the door.
~ James Preller
x. IT WAS EIGHT-THIRTY IN the morning by the time I got to storage, with a sore jaw from grinding
~ Donna Tartt
back there or maybe even taken an actual shit, and then tried to cover it up with a bunch of coconut air freshener that smelled like suntan lotion. The seats were greasy, and patched with duct tape, and the shocks were nearly gone. Whenever we struck a
~ Donna Tartt
Discomfort without hope of betterment is not a great springboard.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated--open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
CLUN (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.
~ Douglas Adams
He lay, panting heavily in the wet air, and tried feeling bits of himself to see where he might be hurt. Wherever he touched himself, he encountered a pain. After a short while he worked out that this was because it was his hand that was hurting.
~ Douglas Adams
Su cabeza nadaba a estilo libre, pero en su estómago alguien practicaba el mariposa.
~ Douglas Adams
Oh freddled gruntbuggly... he began. Spasms wracked Ford's body - this was worse than even he'd been prepared for.
~ Douglas Adams
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
~ Douglas Coupland
The truth shall make you free," she said, "but first it will make you miserable.
~ Douglas Preston
To most people, Metcalf had discovered, silence was even more unbearable than pointed questioning.
~ Douglas Preston
I had a botfly bite once, on my forehead. Felt like a mosquito at first. It began to swell and turn red. Hurt like the devil. A month later it erupted, and inch-long botfly maggots started squirming out and dropping to the ground.
~ Douglas Preston
Suzanne likes thrills, but she hates being uncomfortable.
~ Agatha Christie
It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.
~ Agatha Christie
She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too old. Nobody told me you were so old. I really don't want to be rude but - there it is. You're too old. I'm really sorry." She turned abruptly and blundered out of the room, rather like a desperate moth in lamplight. Poirot, his mouth open, heard the bang of the front door. He ejaculated: "Non d'un nom d'un nom...
~ Agatha Christie
Miss Emily Brent sat very upright as was her custom. She was sixty-five and she did not approve of lounging. Her father, a Colonel of the old school, had been particular about deportment. The present generation was shamelessly lax—in their carriage, and in every other way…. Enveloped in an aura of righteousness and unyielding principles, Miss Brent sat in her crowded third-class carriage and triumphed over its discomfort and its heat.
~ Agatha Christie
For some of us, listening to him was like being pricked repeatedly with a pin—the sensation a discomfort radiating out from its point of entry. A poem of nerve ends, of images that stitched you up in a zigzag pattern and then scissored you open again.
~ Aislinn Hunter
La profonde tristesse résulte toujours d'un état maladif du corps.
~ Alain
I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.
~ Jennifer Coolidge