Discomfort Quotes

“I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.”

— Caitriona Lally

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

— Brandon Sanderson

Discomfort is a seed for Greatness.

— Anonymous

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Discomfort begets discomfort in others.”

— Lionel Shriver

“Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.”

— Wade Davis

“When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Discomfort is the signal for growth.”

— Naiyem Chowdhury Rony

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

— Mason Cooley

“Don’t be too comfortable with employment; discover yourself and see what you can achieve for yourself”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Laurie E. Smith

If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

— Eric Thomas

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

— Rumi

In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

— Pema Chodron

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

— Robert Orben

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to…

— Lionel Shriver

You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing.…

— Jeff Bridges

If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission…

— Jet Li

“Regalia Mason liked to be early to meetings; it was an interesting way of making others feel uncomfortable. If the most important…

— Jeanette Winterson

Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to…

— Emile M. Cioran

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through…

— Lisa Bonet

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get…

— Patti Harrison

...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty…

— Bernie Sanders

“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk…

— William S. Burroughs

My wife was gone, all other girls failed to cooperate, so I decided to wear a pouch of animal blood myself and…

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

“The reason for my discomfort was simple. Our story - however romantic I could make it sound in my head - sometimes…

— Catherine Sanderson

“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo . Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin . Burn it.…

— Ray Bradbury

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There…

— Jean Cocteau

Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble…

— Charles Rumney Samson

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be cause by another person. No one outside me can hurt me. That’s not…

— Byron Katie

...All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30…

— Irwin Stone

“Romantic retrospect aside, the night spent in the truck is distinctly unpleasant. We are cramped and cold. The much-vaunted heating of the…

— Vikram Seth

Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Irma, my dear sister,' said Prunesquallor, 'I have two things to say. Firstly, why in the name of discomfort are we hanging…

— Mervyn Peake

It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first…

— B. C. Forbes

How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal…

— Vivian Gornick

I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and…

— Knut Hamsun

In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so…

— David James Duncan

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…

— Pema Chodron