Uneasiness Quotes

47 Uneasiness quotes by 44 unique authors

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. — Jean de la Bruyere
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
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. — Tom Barrett
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
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
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
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly
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
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
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
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
What uneasiness lies in being loved. — Osamu Dazai
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
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
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
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
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
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
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. — Victor Serge
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. — Ambrose Bierce
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences… — Benjamin Franklin
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. — Charles Dudley Warner
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor. — Ugo Betti
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with… — Josephine Tey

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