Quotes About Discomfort

Every door and hallway reverberated with the nerve-stabbing whine of high-speed dental drills; soon Stranahan's molars started to throb, and he began to feel claustrophobic.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

We live our lives hiding from the things that displease and discomfort us. We reinvent ourselves and our history, constantly placing things in a light most favorable to us. It is in the nature of mankind to do this. Mostly, our deceptions are small ones. But they gather weight through numbers, and having them revealed all at once can be crushing. As well, there are larger truths that, exposed, seem more than we can bear, and so we hide them most carefully.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, Well, isn't this nice.

The horsemen came closer. Vimes was not good at horsemen. Something in him resented being addressed by anyone eight feet above the ground. He didn't like the sensation of being looked at by nostrils.

Wizards can put up with any amount of deprivation and discomfort, provided it is not happening to them.

squernt" ("the feeling upon finding that the previous occupant of the privy has used all the paper")

night." "Just some sore muscles. That's all." She shrugged

Because feeling uncomfortable is what a college education is all about—being exposed to disturbing aspects of human experience. We're talking about twentysomething adults who are exposed to a lot worse in the daily news. I'm not going to infantilize them.

I couldn't sleep in this racket.' 'That's birds and crickets,' she said smiling. 'Yeah, well, give me pigeons and cabs rattling across cobblestones and cabbies swearing. This green stuff's alright in its place, and that place is a park. Bloody blooming hell, something's just stung me!' In front of them, Joe snorted. 'What does he know? He wouldn't last half a day in London,' said Charlie.

Oh, I try to stay as far away from karaoke as humanly possible!

I wasn't in the right place at Kentucky, and I don't think I ever would have been comfortable in college.

Comfort is the killer of creativity.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

The cha-cha, right from the start... I knew it wasn't my kinda thing.

I can't bear kissing scenes.

I don't like hospitals, and the idea of being in labor somewhere I don't like at all - wasn't how I wanted to bring my kids into the world.

Trash can!" Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I'd eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza, milk shake, beer-and a lone, half-dissolved gummy bear, which was a surprise, since I couldn't actually recall having eaten any. Fun times.

My nerves needed a break, not a reminder of how much trouble we were in. I prowled around, but it didn't help. I still felt like my skin was on too tight.

My nose was running, I couldn't see worth shit and my brain was still frozen in abject terror.

I . . . I think I wet myself," he whispered.

At least he I want him pissed off at politicians, ill at ease, trying to manipulate me into doing favors for him I would do anyway. I want him looking for his glasses, trying not to come, doing the dumb verb of journaling, getting spinach caught between canine and gum, berating my logorrhea, or my not staying mum. I don't want him at peace.

I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.