Quotes About Unsettled

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

As with Dr. King, and Cleaver was explicit about his discomfort, Baldwin's queerness unsettled him.

A week ago, it all seemed so secure. So settled.

I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

I'm not in the right place - alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I'm not in the right place.

I'm restless and poisonous.

Living my life in conservation, I see far greater tragedies and crimes against wildlife than the loss of a few thousand badgers. The real reason so many people are so unsettled by the cull is its sinister reflection on the democratic process, on our government's attitude to conservation and to science.

All summer it feels as if it will rain soon. All summer the strange feeling, 'something will break.

I hated the homes, the families, all the places where man thinks to find rest.

No one had forewarned me, however, that if you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised.

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

Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.

That sense of the world being the lack of something dogged him for years, and when it stopped dogging him, he felt unmoored.

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Wie oft lull' ich mein empörtes Blut zur Ruhe, denn so ungleich, so unstet hast du nichts gesehn als dieses Herz.

For he who in unsettle times is weak, Adds to the evil, and expands its growth.

All my life I have been a nomad.

So many things were on her mind that even though she was home, she felt like she was just stopping by and couldn't quite relax. She had only lived in Koriko for a year—this longing to return was strange and unexpected, even for her.

I discovered I was infected with a terrible suspicion of myself and my inability to stay still, my dreadful insomnia of place.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

Just before I fell asleep, I had a moment of panic ...

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.