Quotes About Unsettling

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

You think Halloween comes only once a year? wrong. Walk into Walmart at 3 in the morning. That's some scary sketchy sh...

Luella, she kept gettin' paler and paler, and she never took her eyes off my face. There was somethin' awful about the way she looked at me and never spoke a word.

Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It's a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Es algo en lo que ya he pensado: una historia que acaba en tu cabeza sin que tú quieras, o que es depositada ahí por alguien. Tengo un archivo de imágenes horribles, pero no las voy a compartir contigo. ¿Y si metiera una aquí, en medio de un párrafo que estás leyendo por casualidad, como si fuera una mina antipersona? Nunca podrías olvidarla; sería parte de ti para siempre, como un poco de metralla en tu cerebro.

Cockroach Cluster

God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.

Did you hear how his head bounced down the steps? Thud, splat, thud, splat.

scrabble of toenails on the tile floor.

wierding me out

The creative impulse, to me, is a form of bafflement, and often feels dissonant and unsettling. It chips away at your own cherished truths about things, pushes against your own sense of what is acceptable. It's the guiding force that leads you to where it wants to go. It's not the other way around. You're not leading it.

The room was beginning to darken and spin.

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything about the finger, but it kept coming up in my thoughts. I've never had a finger thrown at me before. A new-and-improved addition to my creepy-hall-of-fame nightmares.

Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should, rather, excite .

It was unsettling to imagine it alone on the bench without a film, unable to record its own passage into the hands of a stranger.

There was an air of vague and unsettling paranoia, an undercurrent of rumors, snatched fragments of conversation anticipating future revolution.

You may find it both unsettling and liberating to realize that you are a process rather than an object, a verb rather than a noun. When we affirm that we are our bodies but deny that our bodies are property, we undermine one of the most destructive ideas in history: that people are something other than animals.

For many people a job is more than an income — it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

When the contents of the collective unconscious become activated, they have an unsettling effect on the conscious mind of everyone. When this psychic dynamic is not consciously metabolized, not just within an individual but collectively, the mental state of the people as a whole might well be compared to a psychosis.

It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.

banshee continued, mixed with terrified