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Quotes About Disturbance

I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.
~ Unknown
signs of identity disturbance, being impulse ridden, unstable in love relations, and she can become intensely volatile and angry.
~ M. William Phelps
Silêncio. Quietude. A pulsação a criar uma calma absoluta. Uma Maior Consciência na perda de toda a percepção. A Flutuar agora. Ausência de perda. Ausência de medo. Ausência de tempo. Ausência de som. Uma perturbação. O centro a quebrar-se como vido negro
~ Madeline Hunter
For once her new placidity was impaired.
~ John D. MacDonald
Chook's phone went to nine rings before she answered in the gritty rancor of interrupted sleep. But her voice changed when she recognized mine. "Trav! I phoned you last night. Who is that Mrs. Atkinson?
~ John D. MacDonald
if any foreign or strange thing be put into it, it is straight corrupted and that which is sought shall not be obtained.
~ Unknown
Sorry to disturb, but Scott Turow is on the phone.
~ John Grisham
I will stay very little while, for as I am in a train of writing now I fear to disturb it—let it have its course bad or good ...
~ John Keats
I was alone for a couple of days while Brown went gadding over the country with his ancient knapsack. Now I like his society as well as any Man's, yet regretted his return—it broke in upon me like a Thunderbolt. I had got in a dream among my Books—really luxuriating in a solitude and silence you alone should have disturb'd.
~ John Keats
Please, go away! Ignatius screamed. You're shattering my religious ecstasy.
~ John Kennedy Toole
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
~ Woody Allen
Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.
~ Moshé Feldenkrais
Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.
~ Oswald Chambers
Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? Or is the love itself the disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?
~ Maggie Nelson
Goethe describes blue as lively color, but one devoid of gladness. "It may be said to disturb rather than enliven.". Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionallu incapable of loving you back?
~ Maggie Nelson
They are no longer human beings. I don't know any other way to describe them. There is something about them that causes an instinctive reaction of "wrong!" in normal people—
~ Marc MacYoung
Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of sleep, every disturbance of routine, becomes a nuisance.
~ Marcel Proust
My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.
~ Marcel Proust
With that tender consideration which, in great crises, people who are crushed by grief shew even for the slightest discomfort of others: "Forgive me for disturbing your sleep," she said to me. "I was not asleep," I answered as I awoke.
~ Marcel Proust
But for the last couple of days Marce had been fighting a cold, which made his snoring both louder and more random. When it woke Cardenia up, Marce sounded like he was two cavemen having a very urgent conversation with each other about discovering fire, or hunting a feral hog, or something else along that line.
~ John Scalzi
That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world—how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The
~ John Steinbeck
Men and women wanted to inspect her, to be close to her, to try to find what caused the disturbance she distributed so subtly. And since this had always been so, Cathy did not find it strange.
~ John Steinbeck
But it isn't silly, this preoccupation with small time units. One thing late or early can disrupt everything around it, and the disturbance tuns outward in bands like the waves from a dropped stone in a quiet pool.
~ John Steinbeck
There was no talk at supper. The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp.
~ John Steinbeck