Quotes on Disagreeable

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.