Best Disturbing Proverbs
293 Disturbing quotes by 271 unique authors
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading…
— David Eddings
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Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didnt even bother turning around and continued…
— Ellen Schreiber
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It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news…
— Roger Ebert
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I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.
— Melina Marchetta
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How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
— Hanif Kureishi
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She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse…
— Abbi Glines
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The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb." My head…
— Karen Marie Moning
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These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't.…
— Jean Cocteau
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Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
— Jonathan Carroll
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You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We…
— Mira Grant
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Levi will kill me the minute he sees me, and I don't trust Madeline. There's something in her eyes..." "I believe that's integrity and dedication…
— Rachel Vincent
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He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken…
— George R. R. Martin
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Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too,…
— Georgette Heyer
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She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how…
— Ronald J. Sider
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"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.
— Richard Dawkins
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We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but…
— Jessica Valenti
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The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I…
— Jessica Sorensen
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