Quotes About Unpleasant

even if there is a ghost it cannot possibly be more disagreeable to live with than your grandfather

One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant.

His smile was unpleasant, the teeth prominent and yellow and wolflike. His smell was musty and sweaty at once, and I gave in and backed up a step.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

Then pretty soon Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it.

Oh, hold on; there's plenty of pain here—but it don't kill.  There's plenty of suffering here, but it don't last.  You see, happiness ain't a thing in itself—it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.  That's all it is.  There ain't a thing you can mention that is happiness in its own self—it's only so by contrast with the other thing.  And

she was as welcome as a corpse is to a coroner.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend mine reflecting on it.

People's minds, particularly the minds of children, are like wells—deep wells full of sweet water. And sometimes, when a particular thought is too unpleasant to bear, the person who has that thought will lock it into a heavy box and throw it into that well. He listens for the splash . . . and then the box is gone. Except it is not, of course. Not really.

At night your thoughts have an unpleasant way of slipping their collars and running free.

remembering how unpleasant the sensation of wet socks was.

sitting there with a face like a smacked arse, the dinner so charred you could have drawn pictures with it.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.

When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.

DENIAL Defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

I never remember politics being quite as unpleasant as this before; but maybe this is what life is like at the top.

I suppose there are actors who are worried about their public image. But I've never had any trouble playing unpleasant characters. It is only a part. Which is why you do it -because you are interested in exploring something you never could or would be.

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

The pay was crap. My boss was an idiot. And the final straw was that she wanted me to demonstrate a colon cleanse. On the air." Billy sniggered. "Talk about a shitty assignment.

at this point, the analysis of gene expression in the brain isn't prectical because current (and foreseeable)techniques require that we analyze a piece of brain tissue. Most people find that unpleasant.