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Quotes About Disturbing

Det slog hende som noget dybt foruroligende, at der fandtes dobbelt så mange hænder som ansigter i verden.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
it was alarming even to look at his face.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Covered by the web of disturbing emotions, One is a sentient being. Freed from disturbing emotions, One is called a buddha. – Nagarjuna
~ Unknown
They just … give me the heebie-jeebies, that's all. With their … eyes and paws and … faces.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I was reading a transcript of a talk by Ponlop Rinpoche, and he said, "In the process of uncovering buddha nature, in the process of uncovering our open, unfixated quality of our mind, we have to be willing to get our hands dirty." In other words, he was saying that we need to be willing to work with our disturbing emotions, the ones that feel entirely dark.
~ Pema Chodron
Lengths of gut are wound around both his arms, long strands of intestines, glistening and dripping. Along his legs several ears have been pinned to the fabric of his trousers.
~ Darren Shan
Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.
~ David Foster Wallace
just thoroughgoingly nasty and sick.
~ David Foster Wallace
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
~ Christopher Walken
It's disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.
~ Holly Black
When I look at her, I am filled with the same hate and fear that paralyzed me throughout my childhood. And yet, there is fresh madness in her yellow eyes. She is not the same as she was when I saw her last. And disturbingly, I see myself in her. Resentful, and trapped, and full of thwarted desire. The worst parts of me, and all my worst potential.
~ Holly Black
She is beautiful but unnerving to look at
~ Holly Black
He stared at her face as if he wanted to peel it off and take it home with him. What a gruesome thought, Rowan.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
There is a fascination with murder that is unequalled by any other crime. And the obsession with homicide is especially keen when the accused killer is a woman. Women aren't supposed to do such things. They create and nurture life.... When a woman abandons her more traditional function in the deadly game of homicide as victim, survivor, or observer and assumes the role of killer, it's especially disturbing--and sensational.
~ Unknown
Over the years I observed Kevin watching decapitations, disembowelments, dismemberments, flayings, impalements, deoculations, and crucifixions, and I never saw him flinch. Because he'd mastered the trick. If you decline to identify, slice-and-dice is no more discomforting than watching your mother prepare beef stroganoff.
~ Lionel Shriver
Dexter siempre aplaude el espíritu caritativo, por supuesto. Pero en general, soy tan partidario de él porque casi siempre constituye una señal de advertencia de que algo inicuo, perverso e inquietante está sucediendo detrás de la máscara de la Madre Teresa.
~ Jeff Lindsay
It makes the most grotesque killings look antiseptic, staged. Like you're in a new and daring section of Disney World. Dahmer Land. Come ride the refrigerator.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The fury of the pounding that had killed Klein was completely psychotic, of course—but the fact that it had been so thorough, and had taken such a very long time, was far beyond normal, comfortable, homicidal insanity, and I found it very disturbing. It had required remarkable strength, endurance, and, most frightening by far, a cool control during the whole wild process so as not to go too far and cause death too soon, before all the bones were broken. And
~ Jeff Lindsay
Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.
~ Whit Stillman
I fuck babies. Therefore maybe I am.
~ Unknown
My mouth tasted like some creature had laid eggs in there and then the eggs had hatched and all the baby creatures had taken their first craps on my tongue.
~ Unknown
I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.
~ Peter Straub
Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
~ Philip K. Dick