Quotes About Unsettling

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

You're a sad little hermit, and it creeps me out.

In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discovery leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better. This discover leaves me with an unsettling, queer sort of feeling in my chest for reasons I can't explain.

If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.

She knew the secret of my creepiness.

As Robert Jensen wrote in 'Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity,' 'Pornography as a mirror shows us how men see women. Not all men, of course--but the ways in which many men who accept the conventional conception of masculinity see women. It's an unsettling look in that mirror.

The woods were wrong.

This was both unsettling, since I'd been duped, and a little comforting in that it took away some of my feeling of guilt for my actions. Ah, the sweet power of deflecting responsibility.

It was beautiful, and it was terrible, and it was almost indescribably eerie.

Bu tatl? seste sanki tekinsiz olan bir ÅŸey varm??, ya bu sesin sahibi büyücüymüÅŸ ya da bir büyünün etkisindeymiÅŸ gibi geldi odadakilere. Üçü de tüylerinin diken diken olduÄŸunu hissettiler. [sf 184]

I like to challenge the audience. I want people to feel discomfort.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

I have one of those faces that you're not going to forget. Kids are scared of me.

It had been a dark and stormy night.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.

Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader's historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.

You make me feel uncomfortable. I'm sorry. Not your fault, she said. It's just the way you are. And what way is that? You're like something feral!

That was the thing about hurricanes and tropical storms, they left town in the same fashion that a stubborn old dowager would leave a cotillion, slowly saying good-bye to her minions, returning for one last waltz, finally leaving for parts unknown, maybe to dissolve into nothingness or to simply find another party, gather steam, and raise a little more hell.

Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace messes up your hair. Grace is not tame.

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.