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Quotes About Unease

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.
~ Robin McKinley
cringed at what they were doing:
~ Ron Chernow
He fretted endlessly about his company and, below the surface, was constantly on edge.
~ Ron Chernow
I think I'm prone to panic.
~ Robert Plant
But everything I've heard tells me that Matt has something going on. He kept
~ Fern Michaels
I aspire to nothing. Life wounds me. I feel uncomfortable where I am and uncomfortable where I think I could be.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Parker had never before felt the least motion of wonder in himself. Until he saw the man at the fair, it did not enter his head that there was anything out of the ordinary about the fact that he existed. Even then it did not enter his head, but a peculiar unease settled in him. It was as if a blind boy had been turned so gently in a different direction that he did not know his destination had been changed.
~ Flannery O'Connor
If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.
~ Richard V. Allen
I have a terrible reputation for being nervous.
~ Rajkumar Hirani
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
~ Lisa See
Miles paused at the door. "Ah—about Tav Calhoun—" "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Yet, it was different than it had been with Rowdy alone. She struggled to push aside the vague unease she felt. The lack of emotional warmth, of sharing that had come from being in bed upstairs, just her and Rowdy.
~ Lora Leigh
Rockefeller always felt uneasy about venting anger or making an egotistical show of protest, and he pretended to accept this demotion with equanimity.
~ Ron Chernow
Car, si je considérais l'homme surtout en termes psychologiques, Smith l'évaluait en termes sociaux et Terron en termes mythiques. Ce qui provoquait en moi une quête irritée de certitude, une insécurité qui me mettait nettement mal à l'aise.
~ Russell Banks
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is happening.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry
~ Eckhart Tolle
A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.
~ Aminatta Forna
I'm always right. I'm quite uneasy at being always right so often.
~ E.M. Forster
There was something wrong about the house in Eastfield Terrace. Something unpleasant.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I don't know why, but I'm dreading it.
~ Francine Pascal
And yet the fear!
~ Franz Kafka
One day, after shooting, when I went back to my hotel room to relax, I just couldn't sleep. I had a feeling that someone was in my room. I was scared and opened all my windows and doors, but the feeling only got worse. I decided to leave the room immediately.
~ Ravi Babu
I don't like going to movie theaters or festivals. I even get freaked out at other people's shows.
~ Dominic Fike
Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.
~ Tim Crouch