The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace…

“The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and…

— Daphne du Maurier

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give…

— Daphne du Maurier

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

— Ben Shahn

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…

— Kate Morton

If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary…

— David Hume

Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.

— Anonymous

Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common…

— Benjamin Franklin

When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe,…

— Jean Cocteau

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks…

— Janet Frame

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces…

— John Steinbeck

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has…

— Samuel Johnson

The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we proceed in…

— Pema Chodron

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge

— John Locke

“[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well…

— Wallace Stegner