Psychological Discomfort Quotes

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don't like to open a letter that has bad news.

Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.