Quotes About Discomfort

#1. I have a high tolerance for pain, but a low tolerance for discomfort.

Maria Semple

#2. You're unnerved by me, so you wish I'd leave the two of you alone to talk?" Vlad snorted. "Your personal discomfort means nothing to me, Hugh ... wait, that's not true. I enjoy it.

Jeaniene Frost

#3. Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Susan Maushart

#4. Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

Andrew Solomon

#5. Discomfort is often a door opening to growth.

S.P. Sipal

#6. The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?

Pema Chodron

#7. Her laugh did something to him, Quill realized. Touched some part of him that admired her indefatigable spirit. Despite her discomfort and distress at being drenched, she was in possession of the sort of temperament that did not allow the petty annoyances of life to dampen her spirit.

Manda Collins

#8. What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined.

Martha Beck

#9. Alien to him, gripped him by the balls, freezing his insides. He rubbed at his chest in an effort to alleviate the discomfort and closed his eyes, trying to rid himself of the images the threat had invoked.

Maya Banks

#10. People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

Barbara Deming

#11. We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

LZ Granderson

#12. Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

Jonathan Lethem

#13. Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#14. Our difficulty is not that we don't know God's will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.

Henry Blackaby

#15. It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.

Wendy Law-Yone

#16. Ah, Princess," Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, "a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

Lloyd Alexander

#17. Sadness, discomfort, frustration
they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

Magda Gerber

#18. I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Diana Nyad

#19. Be willing to tolerate the discomfort necessary for growth.

Peter Scazzero

#20. I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.

Megan Hilty

#21. Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

Deepak Chopra

#22. Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

Peter Menzel

#23. It is better to experience moment of discomfort in the achievement of your dreams than to be comfortable without accomplishing your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Maybe talking's just not your thing," Emily said gently, suddenly acutely aware of his discomfort. "Maybe it's screaming or kicking things or... splattering paint against a wall or fucking, or I don't know - any of a million things.

Laila Blake

#25. But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Meghan O'Rourke

#26. Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. Decrease your willingness to endure discomfort.

Abraham Hicks

#28. One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

Ralph Merkle

#29. One of the hardest things to live with in any relationship is criticism, real or implied. Criticism is a form of humor for them, and they enjoy feeling superior when they see someone else's discomfort.

Robert E. Wells

#30. Be willing to tolerate discomfort - being uncomfortable is often the price for making a real difference.

Al Ritter

#31. It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

Jojo Moyes

#32. The uncomfort zone is very important for us ... To feel uncomfortable is important to strengthen your spirit. Like the samurai says, if you feel comfortable you must search for the discomfort, don't look only for the easy way.

Lyoto Machida

#33. If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons:
Fear
Discomfort
Anger
Self-pity
Someone's negative opinions
Past failures
Unrealistic expectations

Charles F. Glassman

#34. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Warren G. Bennis

#35. My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

#36. A feeling of foreboding, and, indeed, of physical as well as psychological discomfort, had come over him. He suddenly recalled - and this did nothing at all to help - a phrase he had once come across: Someone is walking over your grave.

Arthur C. Clarke

#37. The good certainly cling to nothing. They do not talk aimlessly, concerned with personal gains. The wise, whether experiencing comfort or discomfort, show neither elation not depression.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#38. We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

Craig Thompson

#39. People don't die from panic attacks. It just doesn't happen. You're body is a dick, but it's not going to let you self-destruct like that. Even though the emotional pain and physical discomfort may be quite unbearable, anxiety will not physically hurt you.

Robert Duff

#40. I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.

Zadie Smith

#41. Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort,

Patrick Lencioni

#42. Wizards can put up with any amount of deprivation and discomfort, provided it is not happening to them.

Terry Pratchett

#43. I'm interested in continuing our conversation about the discomfiture I picked up in the mainstream media with one particular element of this debate. It was this discomfort with a law against adultery.

Mike Pence

#44. Think of joy! Think of realities! Realities bring real joy and inner peace even in discomfort!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. Think of discomfort as currency- it's the price you pay to learn some pretty crucial things.

Lilly Singh

#46. Change requires leaving our comfort zones and plunging headfirst into uncomfortable situations. It's true this causes some pain and discomfort for a moment, but it's the quickest path to generating long-term fulfillment.

Yehuda Berg

#47. Having a brilliant life means going outside your comfort zone. And sometimes discomfort shows us ways we can improve.

Franklin Veaux

#48. I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.

Nick Hanauer

#49. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#50. The ways of sin are curious ... I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

John Steinbeck

#51. Teresa had taken vertical dive into the very essence of not just discomfort but pain in its rawest form. - Stainless Steel book 3 Women of the Grey

Carol James Marshall

#52. All things seek for comfort and no one wants discomfort. A sound mind does not just improve speed; it increases efficiency and joy, and bond the body and the soul perfectly as well!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#53. You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.

Chris Kilham

#54. I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.

Howard Fast

#55. Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from these palpable conditions, but when he recovers from wounds he forgets the torments, and when he is well fed he is joyous in the light of day.

Arthur Lynch

#56. When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal".

Dave Barry

#57. The first noble truth says simply that it's part of being human to feel discomfort.

Pema Chodron

#58. The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. How do we practice with difficulty, with our emotions, with the unpredictable encounters of an ordinary day?

Pema Chodron

#59. Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#60. We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Barbara Jordan

#61. From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.

Sunday Adelaja

#62. In every work out there comes a moment where you have to decide to keep pushing hard - through the doubt, discomfort and fear of the pain. You have two choices at this point - to push through and to mentally divorce your mind of the doubt, discomfort and fear or you can surrender.

Lisa Rainsberger

#63. Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#64. I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

Nicole Kidman

#65. The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

Barbara Brennan

#66. Our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#67. That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose cultures, we lose American plurality -- the productive and lovely discomfort that true difference brings.

David Treuer

#68. Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

Mors Kochanski

#69. For me, my discomfort with gay weddings was articulated by a close friend, who observed that gay people getting married is like retarded people getting together to give each other PhDs. It doesn't make them smarter, and it doesn't make us married.

Dan Savage

#70. As a teen, I was an angst on wheels, and as an adult, I'm essentially a young, half-Greek Larry David in heels-incapable of hiding discomfort, dissatisfaction, or doubt, inescapably myself and often honest to a fault.

Sophia Amoruso

#71. In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

Bertrand Russell

#72. Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama.

Alvin Toffler

#73. I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.

Rhys Hughes

#74. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thoughts could reach.

Knut Hamsun

#75. It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

Chrissie Wellington

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

Jet Li

#77. It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

Jeff Bridges

#78. Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Dan Millman

#79. It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies.

Anne Lamott

#80. You're sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you're convinced you're going to die of discomfort.

J.A. Redmerski

#81. There is no "only one" Vietnam experience - there are as many as there are those who went to Vietnam - but this is mine - the combat, the excitement, the discomfort, the fear, the accomplishments, the hubris, the politics, the challenges, and the sex. This is 1968 - MY Vietnam experience.

Joseph E Abodeely

#82. Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.

Laurel Nakadate

#83. When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

Derek Thompson

#84. If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real.

Bryant McGill

#85. I always feel inclined to blame Evangelist for some of the discomfort that poor Christian suffered in the Slough of Despond.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#86. The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

Giambattista Bodoni

#87. You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.

Jean Cocteau

#88. A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

Tahir Shah

#89. Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

Madeline Kahn

#90. I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Adam Shankman

#91. When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Pema Chodron

#92. This is humor: A Japanese woman experiences discomfort in her eye, so she goes to see a qualified ophthalmologist. After a thorough examination, the doctor tells the Japanese woman that she has a cataract. She says, 'No, I don't. I have a Lincoln Continental.

Lee Goldberg

#93. I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

Carl Sagan

#94. The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

Michael Moore

#95. Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!

T. Harv Eker

#96. Just as a callus gets thicker and stronger with use, your body adapts to higher levels of pain. You need to push the envelope to force your brain and body to accept higher levels of discomfort.

Aaron Olson

#97. Adversity and hardship are the building stones of character. How can you appreciate good times and savor happiness if you have never dealt with ill fortune, discomfort and sorrow. It's like a child learning the difference between hot and cold. RW

Rob Wood

#98. It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.

Saint Augustine

#99. The way the normal human ego tries to fill its emptiness and deal with its discomfort is by comparing itself to other people. All the time.

Timothy Keller

#100. Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This is the impulse that drives us to repress undesired emotions, thoughts, and past trauma.

Ben Stewart