Unsettling Quotes

70 Unsettling quotes by 65 unique authors

. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, Iâ€™m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver… — Christopher Moore
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many… — Sydney J. Harris
I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything.… — Stephen King
That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know." "Truly, I think that's best. Please… — Rachel Caine
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you… — Sarah Dessen
Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their… — Thomas Moore
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. — Stephen King
For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking… — Jim Butcher
What are you looking at, foreigner?â€ the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldnâ€™t smile at his captors like that.… — John Flanagan
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from.… — Wendell Berry
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is… — Wendell Berry
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred… — Laurie R. King
It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares. — Patricia Briggs
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who… — Khaled Hosseini
That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even… — Eric Weiner
He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free… — Gail Carson Levine
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless… — Nick Harkaway
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters. — Sarah Dessen
Thereâ€™s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. Itâ€™s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity.… — Dean Koontz
Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and… — Cassandra Clare

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