Quotes About Unsettled

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

I am a restless person.

It's a volatile time.

When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

The day is dark and gloomy, unsettled and uncertain, like the condition of our country, in regard to the unnatural war with Mexico

He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down.

And so the Scots grew restless, moaning all the time as only they could.

I work a lot, so I don't really live anywhere for very long periods of time.

I'm not a big fan of moving from city to city.

I've one of those brains that doesn't quieten down.

I've lived out of a suitcase for four years.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

I unsettle all things.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

the transitory feeling of being constantly uprooted was always present.

It fills me with such feelings that I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Thus with the wisest of you all; you are ever unfixed.

I just don't know what's going on here, and when I'm uncomfortable, I get a bit...edgy.

We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn't a human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange direction. We don't know how to behave when personal contact and eternal authority have disappeared. There are no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that wasn't made for a simpler age. We have changed our environment faster than we can change ourselves.

Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.

Nothing—just gooseflesh," I said. "A goose walking over my grave.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.