Adults Quote by Aleister Crowley

“[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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it conflicts, in…

— Francis Collins