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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning!… — Kate Chopin
I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time! — Helen Keller
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a… — Thomas Hardy
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses… — Edward R. Murrow
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal… — Jimmy Carter
It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was… — Anne Rice
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa. — Augusten Burroughs
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync… — Mike Yaconelli
There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and… — David Bohm
Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. — Julius Lester
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience… — Derrick Jensen
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead. — Laura Whitcomb
A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting… — Robert Cormier
However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is… — Patrick Rothfuss
Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of… — Charlie Brooker
So, like I asked, what’s with the nightie?” “It smells like what I always think mothers smell like,” I tell him honestly, knowing I don’t… — Melina Marchetta
I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Up! you bag of bones!" "Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream....... You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! "She's awake!! North said, kicking off his… — Alexandra Bracken
How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery? — Novala Takemoto
And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me.… — Donald Miller
I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh.… — William Saroyan
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons. — Gene Wolfe

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