Uneasiness Quotes
47 quotes by 45 authors
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
— Edith Hamilton
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Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
— Tom Barrett
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
— Samuel Johnson
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Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you…
— G. Alan Marlatt
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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.
— Georges Bataille
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I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.
— Bill O'Reilly
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so…
— Aleister Crowley
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Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
— Samuel Johnson
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What uneasiness lies in being loved.
— Osamu Dazai
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The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt…
— William Booth
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The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that…
— Pema Chodron
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Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration,…
— Arthur Nersesian
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This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects,…
— Pope John Paul II
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I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
— Victor Serge
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COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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