Top 50 Unpleasantness Quotes

#1. On the other hand, there is a certain advantage in traveling with someone who has a reputation for shooting rather than being shot: as Keram said, in a self-satisfied way, they might kill me, but they would know that, if I was with him, there would be unpleasantness afterwards.

Freya Stark

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#2. We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Henepola Gunaratana

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#3. The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.

Teller

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#4. The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?

Danielle Paige

Unpleasantness Quotes #210857
#5. When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead.

Molly Harper

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#6. He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

Douglas Preston

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#7. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.

Lisa Kleypas

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#8. Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

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#9. To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

Mason Cooley

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#10. 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 they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

Arnold Bennett

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#11. The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.

Joseph Goldstein

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#12. You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly.
"Little *bitch*," he snapped.
Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied.

Tamora Pierce

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#13. You must never be deflected by unpleasantness. I want you to remember that. Although it may not be apparent to others, your duty will become as clear to you as if it were a white line painted down the middle of the road. You must follow it, Flavia.

Alan Bradley

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#14. Ignoring your subconscious is like neglecting the termite infestation in your basement. Sooner or later, the consequences of neglect will far outweigh the momentary unpleasantness of clearing the nests.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

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#15. I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.

Freya Stark

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#16. Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

Leo Tolstoy

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#17. 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 tools of probabilities. We have methods for analyzing and ranking opinion according to their likelihood of correctness. That is enough.

Robert A. Burton

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#18. ...I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us - the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

Barbara Pym

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#19. Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. Her mother is a Sinclair.

E. Lockhart

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#20. The Business of the World is Trade and Death, and you must engage with that unpleasantness, as the price of your not-at-all-assur'd Moment of Purity. - Fool.

Thomas Pynchon

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#21. Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Teller

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#22. [I]t was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.

Elena Ferrante

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#23. Perseverance is such a beautiful word. But to experience it means we must first endure the unpleasantness life is sure to always bring our way.

Tony C. Skye

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#24. If you consider all the unpleasantness you encounter while you're alive, it seems improbable that it would all come to an end simply because you're dead.

Peter Hoeg

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#25. Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Thomas Sowell

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#26. Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time.

Francine Prose

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#27. The fire of love or fire of knowledge creates unpleasantness or a sense of longing in the beginning, but it moves on to the blossoming of bliss, the blossoming of fullness.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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#28. She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed.

Terry Brooks

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#29. Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ...

Margaret Deland

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#30. The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

Marie Bashkirtseff

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#31. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.

T.C. Boyle

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#32. No one whines like a vampire forced to deal with some minor unpleasantness.

Tori Centanni

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#33. ... it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits.

Alan Bradley

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#34. 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 a defunct carcass.

Herman Melville

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#35. Here the intellectual cynicism of the Jew almost counterbalances his social unpleasantness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#36. We were caught in a vicious circle of unpleasantness and sorrow. Not a very happy period for either us, but at leasst it's coming to an end.

Anne Frank

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#37. We use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

Bill McKibben

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#38. This whole business of telling the truth just never seems to work without some kind of awkward unpleasantness.

Jeff Lindsay

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#39. Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or ... you know ... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#40. And on the other hand, you got people like Ligur and Hastur, who took such a dark delight in unpleasantness you might even have mistaken them for human. Crowley

Terry Pratchett

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#41. There's nothing like a good, long sleep to allow unpleasantness to recede into the past.

David Michie

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#42. In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

Abe Fortas

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#43. The music gave her an odd, wrenching kind of feeling. There was no pain or unpleasantness involved, just a sensation that all the elements of her body were being physically wrung out. Aomame had no idea what was going on. Could Sinfonietta actually be giving me this weird feeling?

Haruki Murakami

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#44. It is from the unpleasantness of the storm that we get the pleasantness of the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#45. Getting shot was an experience that Elise ranked on the "unpleasantness" scale right around "trying to survive a week without coffee.

S.M. Reine

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#46. The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible.

Glenn Greenwald

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#47. 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

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#48. I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.

Multatuli

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#49. given the unpleasantness of the man driving. Maybe a tree would try to

Nick Affton

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#50. A person of my acquaintance said: ...
Study has always been for me the sovereign remedy against life's unpleasantness, since I have never experienced any sorrow that an hour's reading did not eliminate.

Montesquieu

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