Unpleasantness Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the… — Mignon McLaughlin
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration. — Edward Adam Strecker
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting… — Herman Melville
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as… — Arnold Bennett
Certainty is not biologically possible. We must learn (and teach our children) to tolerate the unpleasantness of uncertainty. Science has given us the language and… — Robert A. Burton
We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and… — Henepola Gunaratana
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the… — Dalai Lama
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. — Marie Bashkirtseff
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and lives throughout the… — Rudolf Steiner
When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead… — Prentice Mulford
If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable… — Claire Weekes
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just… — Bruce Lee
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy
Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without… — Ann Landers
Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying… — Mitch Daniels
we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness. — Bill McKibben
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns… — Henri Matisse
Iâ€™ve won his heart, but itâ€™s like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from… — Lisa Kleypas

Who Wrote These Unpleasantness Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 25 Unpleasantness Quotes as follows: