Unnerved Quotes

27 Unnerved quotes by 26 unique authors

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. — Elizabeth Bowen
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the… — Andrew Revkin
When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea… — Emma Forrest
The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would… — Harold Brodkey
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence,… — Charles Dickens
I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in… — Edgar Allan Poe
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother… — Sylvia Plath
I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web. — Willow Bay
So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end. — Irene Dunne
Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that… — Ralph Fiennes
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it… — William James
People say that they like the characters that they believe that I am. But, I don't as much. I like the characters that I believe… — Jill Scott
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and… — R A Salvatore
So many humans. So many colours. They keep triggering inside me. They harass my memory. I see them tall in their heaps, all mounted on… — Markus Zusak
Do I look like I have anything ?" I asked him, in a reasonable voice. He looked as unnerved as the nurse had. He said,… — Charlaine Harris
There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things.… — Ted Dekker
I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off… — Jennifer Egan
Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here."… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could… — Jeaniene Frost
That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my own scar. Patch… — Becca Fitzpatrick
I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. — H P Lovecraft
Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. "Are you okay?" Alec looked… — Cassandra Clare
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a… — Franz Kafka
I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband… — Lauren DeStefano
I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems… — Helen Vendler

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