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Quotes About Unsettling

DC is good all round. He pushes the pace, makes you think what you're doing, makes you uncomfortable.
~ Stipe Miocic
Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.
~ Lou Barlow
That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.
~ Ariel Pink
I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.
~ Earl Sweatshirt
When in doubt, freak 'em out.
~ Sharon Needles
I find Nevada to be extremely spooky.
~ Weyes Blood
I sleepwalk and scare people. It's actually very spooky.
~ Sameera Reddy
I happen to collect the weird stuff - photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
~ Ransom Riggs
What was it — I paused to think — what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.
~ Theophile Gautier
His eyes were anything but friendly, the color of bitter storms.
~ Nora Roberts
Write something that people might not "enjoy" but will never forget.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
what was going on here went well beyond weird and into the stuff of a Stephen King novel.
~ Chuck Wendig
There's no delight the equal of dread.
~ Clive Barker
Alas, the objects I had assembled wander away. The young poplar dims and takes off to return where it had been fetched from. The brick wall dissolves. The house draws in its little balconies one by one, then turns, and floats away. Everything floats away. Harmony and meaning vanish. The world irks me again with its variegated void.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
he was more of a poltergeist than a lodger
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Humble people were unsettling at best. All that lack of backbone. It was just creepy. Like talking to linguine.
~ Laura Florand
Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.
~ Celeste Ng
I wants to make your flesh creep.
~ Charles Dickens
a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
~ Charles Dickens
The old world falls apart, but the new has not emerged. Everything that once seemed permanent and real is revealed as a kind of hallucination. You don't know what to think, what to do; you don't know what anything means anymore. The life trajectory you had plotted out seems absurd, and you can't imagine another one. Everything is uncertain.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.
~ Guillermo del Toro
You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.
~ James Patterson
The place was also slightly haunted,
~ Thomas Ligotti
The kid is scary.
~ Orson Scott Card