Unsettling Quotes
70 Unsettling quotes by 65 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
— Sylvia Plath
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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
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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
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Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.
— Roosh V
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
— Walter Goodman
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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
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Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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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
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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
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It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
— Michael Sandel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
— Tom Hayden
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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
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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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