Quotes About Unsettling

Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him. It sounded as though somebody was tapping on the windowpane.

I see the hills look odd too. Not tectonic action, nor rain, nor riverbeds, nor glaciers, nor wind shaped these hills. They are uncanny. You can see something is different here, and it's hard not to feel it's wrong.

Sebastian glanced around. "Raises my hackles, though"—another flash of lightning—"almost like it's . . . haunted." Sebastian gets a cookie.

It causeth unease. - Oh it doth, doth it?

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Now... what I feel these in my brain is just like... some kind of foreign body... like having a very thin little eyelash in your eye. You feel generally okay, but that eye with the last in it-you can't get it off your mind for a second.

On the spur of the moment she decided to go and view the blossoms by herself in the dark night. It was a strange decision for a timid and unadventurous young woman, but then she was in a strange state of mind and she dreaded the return home. That evening all sorts of unsettling fancies had burst open in her mind. ("Swaddling Clothes")

Oh cozy horror." ~Clara

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

They found what some might call a preternatural silence.

I had the unsettling thought that the natural world around me had become a kind of camouflage.

This was my evening out: bopping back and forth, away from whichever convo made me the most uncomfortable.

such a strange look of repugnance and horror

frustrating and disorienting

Have you ever heard wolves howl in a place where wolves do not reside?

Quelle sarebbero state le parole finali ma... Ancora il fascino?

Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you're trying to discover a character and actualize it.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.

And she could almost swear that one of them had moved.

BAD HALLOWEEN

Stay and get married, or travel the Ways. Loial grimaced ruefully. Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.

It gets creepy in the Hamptons after Labor Day. Like, I'm talking The Shining creepy.