Quotes About Unsettled

She herself has been taken by surprise at how much it matters to her, this buried question from long ago. She has thought of Salome many times over the years, of course she has. Whenever her mind has strayed in the direction of home, or no, that is, the farm, not her home any more, whenever her mind strays to the farm there lots of stones to turn over, and Salome is one of them. But that particular stone never seems to find a resting place, no matter how often it's turned.

Lo característico de la vida actual no son la inseguridad y la crueldad, sino el desasosiego y la pobreza. George Orwell

As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

I get a little restless. Who doesn't?' 'Toss and turn?' 'Toss,' I said. 'Good.' 'Good.

Delirium: unmoored and drifting.

You're sick in the head.

This was why she could not sleep. She could not say the day was over. She had no sense that any day was ever over.

Rather, she feared her distress had its roots in the unexpected amiability of the enterprise, the sense of camaraderie that had sprung up between them as they sat quietly by the fire in her room discussing suspects in Mr. Otley's murder. In those moments, she'd felt known by the duke in a way she hadn't been by anyone else, and it made her sad and unsettled to realize how quickly he would cease to know her.

Dangerous desires birthed inside our unsettled disappointments are nothing but a setup for a takedown.

The enemy uses disappointments to cause so much trouble in an unsettled heart. A heart hungry for something to ease the ache of disappointment is especially susceptible to the most dangerous forms of desire.

I'm afraid I'm a restless person

At times I envy Lewis Merrill; I wish someone could trick me the way I tricked him into having such absolute and unshakable faith. For although I believe I know what the real miracles are, my belief in God disturbs and unsettles me much more than not believing ever did; unbelief seems vastly harder to me now than belief does—but belief poses so many unanswerable questions!

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

The Western States are nervous under the beginning change. Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action. A half-million people moving over the country; a million more resting, ready to move; ten million more feeling the first nervousness.

and the night moved restlessly about the house.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy.

So, if and when they discover aliens they'd be really pretty unsettled because then we'd have to know, once and for all, that there is nothing really unique or special about us at all.

They were not happy, they could not settle, they had the distrait air of cats whose feet had not been buttered.

You're not a restful individual to be around" Ashaya to Dorian