Quotes About Unsettled

Each night Father fills me with dread When he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks In gibbers and squeaks, But for seventeen years he's been dead.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.

Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

I dunno... I feel out of step. Musically. Just out of step, not even behind or ahead. Just sort of like... I dunno, sometimes I feel like I'm still... just not... in sync. I don't know how to explain it. I just am.

this making you nauseous a little?

get like this sometimes—I get agitated when I feel

There was uncertainty in the air, a feeling that life was suddenly fragile.

Many people in the early 1960s shared a sense that things had gone horrifically wrong, without having a clear idea of how or when they would change.

I want to migrate, but there's nowhere left to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space.

I settle on nothing; I decide nothing. This is not a final place. There is no such place.

On nights when Gloria stayed up late enough to see Rachel come dreamily home she was always unsettled by the girl's appearance: clothes crushed and hair awry, eyes dazed and mouth swollen, with the lipstick eaten away. Love was often said to be torment, but Rachel could make it seem like punishment as well.

That creates instability, too." "Or maybe

How easy it is to upend your life. To restless, heedless me it was nothing.

Sembrava sempre barcollare in una sorta di stordimento, come se avesse perso qualcosa e non riuscisse a ricordare cosa né dove cercare.

for we are all definitely always falling apart, and not massively entrenched in anything at all.

For the first time in my adult life I feel . . . lost.

I was agitated something fierce.

Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: such universal, defining symbols made meaningless by nothing more than time.

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny, and it sure as hell was easier to land than a decent apartment. All he needed was a cell phone, or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon. Being in one place and thinking about another place could make him feel at home.

He doesn't stop me as I walk away, and it's now and only now that I can think about what it is I'm feeling. Afraid, for one. Afraid. Afraid. Afraid. Unsettled. Mad at myself for starting to open up to this person I barely know. Mad at him for making me think I could open up. Stupid for believing I was different and he was different and this was different in any way.

You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

I felt strange, kind of disoriented, but I didn't hurt.