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Quotes About Unsettling

We were not folk-rock. We would scare people.
~ John Densmore
I love scary films.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
It struck her as odd and faintly sinister, this lonely city creeping north in silence.
~ Philip Reeve
We frame things in an off-kilter way because it's unsettling. In the 'Mr. Robot' world, that's the norm, and it's the norm for the point of view that we're looking for, which is Elliot's. With our compositions and our visual language and camera movements, it's important to always evoke that unsettling feeling underneath every scene.
~ Sam Esmail
It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
~ Jo Brand
He leaned down and whispered, 'Haunted.' I whispered back, 'I don't believe in the paranormal.' He said, 'Ghosts don't care if you believe in them'.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Blusterous -- adj. a word used to describe those Atmospheric Conditions in which one's ears are adversely affected {and possibly one's house}.
~ A.R. Melrose
I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
~ Poppy Z. Brite
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 take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind." "I so wish you hadn't said that.
~ Rachel Caine
One time, when I was really young, my dad and brother were watching 'Team America,' the Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie. I walked in and they didn't know I was there, but I got really freaked out by the marionettes - just the look of them, their mouths, those grins. That cemented in my brain.
~ Finn Wolfhard
I unsettle all things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to be really bothered once in a while.
~ Ray Bradbury
All the rooms of the new house were full to bursting with familiar things made strange and disturbing by their crowdedness and juxtaposition in this new setting, like an unwieldy nightmare into which an entire life has been shuffled out of impersonal malicious glee.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Observance of the freedom God has to change causes a terrible unsettling among the faithful.
~ Walter Brueggemann
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
~ Walter Goodman
He just said he likes the taste of eyeballs." This from Frypan. "I think that qualifies as crazy.
~ James Dashner
Hey", he said again. "I'm gonna go down to Mrs. Jackson's place and murder her whole family. Then I'm gonna fly to the moon and eat some chickens. Be right back." "Okay," she murmured.
~ James Dashner
Heebiejeebieville.
~ Donna Tartt
She, I thought, was very beautiful, in an unsettling, almost medieval way which would not be apparent to the casual observer.
~ Donna Tartt
The sky clenched, a mountain of mud convulsed, earth and sky bellowed at each other, there was a horrible pinkness, a sudden greenness, a lingering orangeness that stained the clouds, and then the light sank and the night at last was deeply, hideously dark. There was no further sound other than the soft tinkle of water. But
~ Douglas Adams
Nothing—just gooseflesh," I said. "A goose walking over my grave.
~ Agatha Christie
There is always something taboo, something repressed, un-admitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.
~ Alan Watts
The most fascinating places are often also the most disturbing, entrapping, and appalling. They are also often temporary. In ten years' time most of the places we will be exploring will look very different; many will not be there at all.
~ Alastair Bonnett
Oh it just gives me the heebie-jeebies
~ Rachel Vail