Quotes About Unsettling

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Backpacking as a spiritual discipline is both rewarding and unsettling. Few experiences in my life are as total—or as demanding.

He had seemed daunting when I first saw him off the trail, hulking over the Jewish couple as if he might carve into their backs and eat them. Now

'Re-Mit' is going to terrify people. It's quite horrible. The Fall have had enough and we're coming for you.

I don't like haunted houses or anything like that.

such: From the first morning after the move, when she

Wow, someone walk over your grave?

What did we do today to frighten the world?

En las calles tampoco se notaba nada. Business as usual. Pero en el aire flotaba aún la sensación del acercamiento estruendoso de lo desconocido...

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

se desvanecía la belleza de mi sueño y el corazón se me llenaba de horror y disgusto.

it doesn't feel like home—more like a strange, wildly expensive sleepaway camp for pseudoadults.

I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.

the great works of imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.

Some things don't rest easy, even when they're dead. Their bones cry out from the ground.

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

Does anyone else find this shit completely terrifying

I have heard African lions roar and the hacksaw cough of leopards just outside my safari tent, but neither of these is as haunting, as unsettling, as the savage symphony of gray wolves on a cold, still, northern night.

The condition of being alienated and "othered" reflects the ways in which navigating Western societies as a Black person is an endlessly unsettling experience, something that might be ripped whole from the pages of a speculative novel. Because of this, the search for lost cultural touchstones is a gesture towards survival: it is an Afrofuturistic act. At its heart it is the creation of a possible future based on a reconstructed, or reimagined past. In this way, a ware is wages against erasure.

John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us and leaving us not quite sure of how we feel about him. ... And yet John seems hard to know, hard to like even though we stand back in admiration of him. We react the same way to most absolute figured.

anyone in horror's path is irrevocably altered.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.