Quotes About Unsettling

The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.

Like being friends with a storm cloud

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

I fuck babies. Therefore maybe I am.

It was the unhappy perception at the center of every ghost story.

People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.

Are we allowed to go armed? asked Pagan If you like, said Belder, though I cannot see even you fighting your way through a thousand Sathuli! I don't want to die without a weapon in my hand. Bravely spoken! said Scaler. I will take this apple. I don't want to die without a piece of fruit in my hand. Will you put a stop to this talk of dying? It's extremely unsettling!

Serrated, adj. And you said, I'm not sure we can.

i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.

she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud.

More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

I admired anyone who could unsettle people.

This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it

There's no sweeter stench than the scent of a burning baby

It was unsettling. For a moment he believed she could see straight through his brain. Not that there was much to see. Still, he doubted she'd feel more amiably toward him if, for instance, she could discern how vast an amount of mental space his fantasies of seduction occupied, compared to the cramped corner devoted to the problem of murdered guides and corrupt police.

viscerally, what Genevieve felt, and it wasn't at all amusing.

For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time. Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

When a single cat let loose a war cry, it was an unsettling sound. When two cats suddenly wailed at each other in a similar fashion, it was downright unnerving. When hundreds of them caterwauled at the same time, in a single voice, the sound alone was enough to make one feel as if the skin had been peeled from one's muscle and bone, to call up horrors inherited from ancestors long since dead and forgotten, raw terror before a deadly predator.

It is hard to find California now, unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised; melancholy to realize how much of anyone's memory is no true memory at all but only the traces of someone else's memory, stories handed down on the family network.

In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark.

Horror lets us know that how we expected the world to act has been indefinitely cancelled.

He'd never lost the simple pleasure, which went way back, of making people uncomfortable, comfortable people especially.

The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.

Above me on the landing stood a strange girl, about my age, with short black hair. She was smiling down at me, not a warm smile, not a friendly smile, but the coldest, most frightening smile I had ever seen.