Quotes About Unsettled

I've stopped wanting a home, I think, because I've been on tour all my life, basically.

We are adrift, and the thinnest breeze may blow us where it will.

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

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

I'm surprisingly squeamish.

I define myself as a seminomad, so my world consist of transient places, where being at home is not possible.

Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go.

UNSETTLED QUESTIONS FOR THEOLOGY TODAY (1920)

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

'Twas sad by fits, by starts 'twas wild.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

A vagrant is everywhere at home.

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

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

We all feel not Comfortable on the same place.

I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it's poetry, I'll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.