Unsettling Quotes

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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. — Marlon Brando
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma.… — Bill Bryson
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites… — William O. Douglas
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. — Sylvia Plath
I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more… — Bill Nye
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one… — Jaimy Gordon
Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes. — Roosh V
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. — Walter Goodman
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side. — Robert Greene
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. — Joyce Carol Oates
It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still a profoundly morbid… — Hunter S. Thompson
Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for… — Matt Taibbi
It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit. — Unknown Author
I don't like auditions. I feel like they're a very unnatural setting and it's a very unsettling experience. Because you can't help but walk in… — Sharni Vinson
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. .… — Mark Kingwell
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too… — Alan Watts
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. — Michael Sandel
ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. — Ishmael Beah
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is… — Dana Spiotta
The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in… — Kealan Patrick Burke
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. — Patricia Hampl
As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and… — Unknown Author
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? — Tom Hayden
Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality… — Piper Kerman
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert… — Brian Evenson

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