Disquieting Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. — Dean Koontz
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom… — John Owen
He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every… — John Owen
I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, 'an open door.' — Christopher Lee
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of… — Caspar David Friedrich
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world… — Norman Bethune
[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through… — Tom Bissell
It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a… — Kenneth Oppel
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting… — Alberto Manguel
There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in… — Hilaire Belloc
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition… — H. M. Tomlinson
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist… — Eric Maisel
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same.… — Umberto Eco
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without… — Alex Haley
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of… — James A. Baldwin
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar. — Ellen Hopkins
Humans â€” who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals â€” have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A… — Carl Sagan

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