Quotes About Unsettled

Celui qui n'appartient à aucun lieu spécifique ne peut, en réalité, retourner nulle part.

I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Danny woke up the next day feeling a little off. Not bad, exactly, not unsettled the way he had been the previous morning on the bus, just . . . off. He went down to breakfast and found his mother snoring into her coffee. Danny's dad was away on a business trip, and Danny's mother did not do mornings well. Toast. Toast seemed like a good idea. He slid some bread into the toaster. "Zzz . . . zz . . . " It was taking forever for the toast to pop up.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

Once I was sitting next to a man on an airplane who kept interrupting our conversation to take various pills. I asked him, "What is that you're taking?" He answered that they were tranquilizers. I said, "Oh, are you nervous?" and he said, "No, not now, but I think when I get home I'm going to be." You can laugh at this story, but what happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy?

Serrated, adj. And you said, I'm not sure we can.

I never want to stay. I'm always ready to leave.

I've wandered for many years... So much that I'm unsure where home even lies.

I don't really live anywhere.

How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

I'm not lost,I'm just in between places I recognize.

Sometimes the dreams clung to Bea all day, leaving her unsettled and jittery, gloomy. Like today.

as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

Night Watch Awake for hours and staring at the ceiling Through the unsettled stillness of the night He grows possessed of the obsessive feeling That dawn has come and gone and brought no light.

Always in a rush with no where to be

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

What's gotten into you today? All evening

She stands just outside her door, puzzled, vaguely disquieted.

When a scientist tells you that 'the science is settled' in regard to any subject," Lamar said, "he's ceased to be a scientist, and he's become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.

I felt adrift, anchorless in a running sea. This is now my home.

I suppose I'm always a little bit on edge.

That was a time when I didn't give a damn about anything, the period when I came to settle in this city. "Settle" is the wrong term. I had no desire to be settled in any sense;