Disquiet Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It…
— Thomas Traherne
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Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it’s not meant to be, isn’t a pious act…
— Peter Enns
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool…
— Brian Ferneyhough
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We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it…
— Brother Lawrence
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This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing…
— Blaise Pascal
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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific…
— Seth Godin
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Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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These pictures possibly give rise to questions of political content or historical truth. Neither interests me in this instance. And although even my motivation for…
— Gerhard Richter
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The film is ambiguous, an ambiguity that reflects on Japan today, and a world in which nothing is clear. Once I made the film, I…
— Takeshi Kitano
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A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late.
— Sandra Gulland
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In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys…
— Fernando Pessoa
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what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
— Oscar Wilde
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Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm. . . . The pain…
— Teresa of Avila
Who Wrote These Disquiet Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Disquiet Quotes as follows: