Uneasy Quotes · Page 2

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

— Josh Billings

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

— Franz Kafka

“What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.”

— Deb Caletti

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores…

— Anatole France

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

— Antony Beevor

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be…

— Bertrand Russell

If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.

— J. G. Ballard

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

— Edward P. Jones

“Though I am naturally curious about people, I'm also naturally uneasy when they are right in front of me; when I am…

— Sara Baume

Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about…

— Richelle Mead

I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling…

— Laurie Foos

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable…

— Emily Giffin

Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.…

— Samuel Johnson

“She felt like she was walking up on a wounded animal, unsure if reaching out to him was going to win her…

— Lara Adrian

Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me…

— Jeaniene Frost

Despite the apparent trappings of modest success in television and so on, I have always been an uneasy person. I can't change…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a…

— Neil Tennant

So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100…

— Alfred Gough

The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The…

— Clinton Rossiter

Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the…

— George H. W. Bush

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries--the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil…

— Christopher Isherwood

It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true…

— Frans de Waal

She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming…

— Haruki Murakami

I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I…

— Nicole Krauss

I think, the more of a student I am, the better it will be for my work because it means once you…

— Don McCullin

“Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who…

— Paul Theroux

“The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the…

— Zack Love

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to…

— Samuel Johnson

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

— William Shakespeare

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

— Randall Jarrell

“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.”

— P G Wodehouse

Somebody said to me, 'You should keep a journal of this period in your life and really write down this stuff.' But…

— Timothee Chalamet

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

— Joan Didion

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

— Sade Adu

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

— Eleanor Antin

Hey you, you turn the night on for me but I know behind it oh you're so uneasy here. So speak up…

— Stephen Jerzak

Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.

— Paul Haggis

The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

— Samuel Johnson

“there was about his elders an ease in the holy place, and a levity, that made his soul uneasy.”

— James Baldwin

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe