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Quotes About Unsettling

You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
~ Franz Kafka
One day, after shooting, when I went back to my hotel room to relax, I just couldn't sleep. I had a feeling that someone was in my room. I was scared and opened all my windows and doors, but the feeling only got worse. I decided to leave the room immediately.
~ Ravi Babu
Wir waren die, die verschwanden. Wir lebten als der Mensch, der sich in der Tür umdreht, noch etwas sagen will, aber nichts mehr zu sagen hat.
~ Roger Willemsen
For Ben, this all had a sinister feeling, the feeling of a darker time about to begin.
~ Sandra Newman
Nonetheless, it left him with a terrible doubt, a fear that inhabited every scene.
~ Sandra Newman
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
~ Sarah Dessen
had been like wandering into the wrong carnival sideshow, the kind that left one feeling sick and slightly soiled.
~ John Connolly
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.
~ Edward Gorey
A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.
~ Anupama Chopra
I don't like ghosts.
~ Trevor Ariza
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
~ Christopher Columbus
Afterward, Sara didn't really remember falling asleep, still wearing her robe although she meant to get dressed and had had Serafina lay out a pair of jeans and a blouse for her. In any case, she had slept. And there had been dreams -- of the unsettling kind she didn't want to recall.
~ Rosemary Rogers
I've become swollen with power, true, but also nebulous with it—formless, shape-shifting. I am everywhere and nowhere: even in the minds of the Commanders I cast an unsettling shadow. How can I regain myself? How to shrink back to my normal size, the size of an ordinary woman?
~ Margaret Atwood
The sky was the color of cat vomit.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Damn, I need eye bleach.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
~ John Hickenlooper
Wouldn't there be a long time when nobody'd know what was happening? Centuries out of kilter, askew, but no one understanding the problem. Just this queasiness, this uneasiness. This tilt and slow falling. You are in a city. You look up and can't see the stars and that doesn't bother you as much as it should. You don't know what's wrong but maybe more's wrong than you want to know.
~ John Edgar Wideman
What are you looking at, foreigner?" the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn't smile at his captors like that. "I'm just making sure I can remember you," Gilan told him. "Never know when that might be useful.
~ John Flanagan
Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours of decay - the most terrible experiences are often bereft of these properties of melodrama.
~ John Franklin Bardin
You eat babies
~ John Marston
A dark chuckle and the sensation of shifting earth, of a crimson eye splintering darkness, and the presence was gone as suddenly as it had come.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You will die in this house.
~ B.J. Daniels
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.
~ Clive Owen