People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

Thomas Hardy

Tags: nature marriage self-deception pleasure matrimony discomfort force-of-nature



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Discomfort it temporary. A photo is forever.

Kipling Swehla

Tags: inspirational discomfort photo forever



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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

Kate Morton

Tags: sleep dreams discomfort uneasiness



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A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Tags: fear parents silence child crying feelings discomfort protectiveness suppress



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The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Tags: parents denial crying feelings discomfort



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He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent.

Adam Levin

Tags: discomfort awkward incontinent



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Discomfort begets discomfort in others.

Lionel Shriver

Tags: discomfort



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All discomfort comes from suppressing your true identity.

Bryant McGill

Tags: discomfort suppression identity-crisis



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Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.

Alexandre Dumas

Tags: sleeping discomfort



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