Quotes About Discomfort

Grandma and I were cautiously polite to each other. "Make yourself at home, Dolores," she said hesitantly as she opened the door to what had once been my mother's bedroom. The room smelled dry and dusty. The windows were stuck closed and there were little rows of insect carcasses along the sill. When I sat down on the hard mattress, it crackled under me.

He took a deep breath and got a noseful of sun-warmed dog shit for his trouble.

I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

He said, "You are lucky to be traveling in a place where a spring is so handy. In my country you can ride for days and see no ground water. I have lapped filthy water from a hoofprint and was glad to have it. You don't know what discomfort is until you have nearly perished for water." Rooster said, "If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.

I have a hangover that feels like someone let a cat loose inside my face.

That ought to make his face, or the sound of his voice, more precious to her mind, but strangely, this wasn't so. What was left in his absence was an empty, sorrowful discomfort. She wondered if it wouldn't eventually grow dull or dim if she worried at it enough, or softened and more

It's not meant to be comfortable," Cly told him. He pushed at the captain's chair, which had been furnished with a leather pad in the shape of a cushion. It looked approximately as soft as an old book. Fang

Testing yourself means relinquishing the things you believe have so far kept you safe or comfortable

They laughed again, the way one laughs at dead baby jokes: nervously, guiltily, and helplessly.

If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.

Marie always had a headache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

hope you understand, I'm too tense to pretend I like you. —Marge Simpson

Sometimes, discomfort means we are on the verge of a major turning point or revelation.

I'm not big on meeting new people, especially new people I'm never going to see again. There's all kinds of uninteresting, insincere banter, I have to pretend to be a nice person, and because 96 percent of the world's population are dim bulbs, odds are excellent that I'll be stuck in the middle of a Spontaneous Freak Encounter.

They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an uncomfortable place to lay one's head, even if you find a dish towel inside it that can serve as a blanket.

Oh!' Said Sunny, and everyone knew what she meant. She meant, 'What a terrible place! I don't want to live there at all!

Nobody likes to be tapped on the knee. Practically nobody likes to be tapped anywhere.