Quotes About Unsettling

I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

It was always the most striking scene, the best work, the most disturbing emotion and unsettling idea that attracts criticism.

the light was black. It was not real light, not good light, not the light Lizzie knew, that you could read by or warm to, but a light that was made of darkness, a cancerous light, thick and smothering

In fiction, we are not bound by social convention, so the things that mystify and unsettle are allowed to rise to the surface.

I think for a horror experience to be really scary, something has to be a bit of a shock and a surprise. It's like something you've never experienced before.

He looked a lot more like a dead man than most dead men look.

The place was horrible by daylight. The Chinese junk on the walls, the rug, the fussy lamp, the teakwood stuff, the sticky riot of colors, the totem pole, the flagon of ether and laudanum - all this in the daytime had a stealthy nastiness, like a fag party.

She had no children, or perhaps she had eaten them when they were young.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

Wanna see how creepy I can be?"-Mr Teatime

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

This is what my girlfriend would look like without skin.

It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.

Not sure how ye can look so settled after such an unsettling day" Joseph said. "I know you're resilient but even strong and solid trees should look a little windblown following a storm!" "I learned to cope by leanin into the wind" I said, "just like you told me.

What a strange sensation to have the ground under your feet shift unexpectedly. One moment rock solid, the next quivering.

Each night Father fills me with dread When he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks In gibbers and squeaks, But for seventeen years he's been dead.

The anger that rose in him was a new thing.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system since going there as a young lecturer, and yet however much I love revisiting it, I always feel I have to leave again.