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Quotes About Unsettling

He never used words or reason. He just moved dangerously among us.
~ Michael Ondaatje
True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.
~ Brad Anderson
I was sitting in the living room doing my homework, when the house started to get cold. Cold as—cold as a tomb." "When were you in a tomb?
~ Betty Ren Wright
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking up from a long coma.
~ Bill Bryson
Jesus, I smell like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator.
~ Bill Bryson
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. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
~ Bill Bryson
He looked like he came out of nightmare alley.
~ Bob Dylan
And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.
~ Bram Stoker
Los ejemplos que recuerdo, como se verá, remiten (o re-tornan) a la casa, a la cuchara y a la olla; remiten a lo casero, aunque las lenguas del sujeto bilingüe nunca lo son. La mezcla, el ir y venir, el switching pertenece al dominio de lo unheimliche que es, precisamente, lo que sacude la fundación de la casa.
~ Sylvia Molloy
An unfinished feeling.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they executed the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
~ Sylvia Plath
I wish he wouldn't do this when he's on me. It's really very upsetting.
~ Tamora Pierce
The sky was becoming iron, and the trees seemed to rustle uneasily at an unfelt wind, murmuring to one another, Weather is coming.
~ Tanith Lee
We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.
~ Ted Dekker
The clouds around us are strange, roiling and twisting even though there doesn't seem to be any sign of a storm. Worse, the sky has taken on an orange cast, like the setting sun, only it's too early for that.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
~ Pico Iyer
Most horror movies are certainly that.
~ Brendan Francis
Någonstans ute i mörkret, borta vid de lömska Stökgrunden slog en osynliga gädda en virvel, och mot öster, där gryningen brukade komma skrek en uppretad tärna. Kanske också fåglar hade mardrömmar?
~ Henning Mankell
Catching a glimpse of your own greatness can be one of the most unsettling experiences imaginable.
~ Steve Pavlina
With 'Only God Forgives,' what's great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
We have thirty people on staff, including several part-timers, and I believe everyone has seen her at least once. It was very frightening at first. As I said, she tended to favor the end of the afternoon, and at this time of year, it's often dark by four. It was very disconcerting to be looking for a book in the stacks and then to look up and see her standing at the end of the aisle. Staring at you. With her feet a few inches above the floor or her ankles sinking into it.
~ Mike Carey
Every morning they would talk about the horror of that return to their native land.
~ Milan Kundera
It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.
~ Patricia Briggs
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 it also occasionally held his evil former lady love.
~ Cassandra Clare