Quotes About Discomfort

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy

We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

pushing in from the edges. My heart raced. A high-pitched ring pulsed in my ears. Searing pain infused my nose and head as if my sinuses had been

The boxing gloves are really itchy, and doing press ups in them is hard, but I love acting so much that it's worth it.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

Education is painful. It means changing the way you think, challenging your truths, saying it in a different way. It is life changing. You will be unsettled, pushed and pulled. So empower yourself and take on the challenge.

True development does not respect comfort.

I think it's odd when people say jeans are comfortable, because to me, they feel like sausage casings.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

La verdad es una cosa muy dolorosa de oír y de manifestar

The general effect was rather as if I had swallowed six-pennorth of dynamite and somebody touched it off inside me.

I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes always induces a sort of prickly sensation and a hideous feeling of shame, together with a marked starting of the pores.

This woman always made Freddie feel as if he were being disemboweled by some clumsy amateur.

He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange back yard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect.

This woman always made Freddie feel as if he were being disembowelled by some clumsy amateur.

He returned with the tissue-restorer. I loosed it down the hatch, and after undergoing the passing discomfort, unavoidable when you drink Jeeves's patent morning revivers, of having the top of the skull fly up to the ceiling and the eyes shoot out of their sockets and rebound from the opposite wall like racquet balls, felt better. It

The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds.

Here, open wide and let it slide," he said, tilting a half-shell into Ben's mouth. The oyster hit Ben's mouth. It felt warm, salty, and had the consistency of loose phlegm. For a moment, Ben thought he was going to vomit. Somehow, he got the animal down his throat.

There were many times when logic was of no comfort.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

How do you feel?" He rubbed his stomach. "Like I've been eating Styrofoam.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order