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Quotes About Unease

The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.
~ Andre Dubus III
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
~ Edward Gorey
Oh, I get nervous quite a bit, actually.
~ Brian France
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God's voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to us most clearly through his silence, his absence, so that we know him best through our missing him.
~ Frederick Buechner
I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.
~ Philip Schultz
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.
~ Gary Larson
the notion of objective truth is something that in Italy often causes unease.
~ John Hooper
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
~ Gillian Flynn
I felt tight from the beginning of the match to the end. I couldn't relax.
~ Elena Vesnina
Every time I see you, I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to fall. I feel uncomfortable every time I see you, and every time we talk, my throat tickles.
~ Yoon Joon-soo
Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.
~ Marian Keyes
Cortney at times seemed unnerved by Da Costa's general appearance and manner, but most of all by his clothes, which, as always, looked as if they had been made by a good tailor for someone of quite different shape.
~ Anthony Powell
Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.
~ Shirley Jackson
Everything is worse," he said, looking at Eleanor, "if you think something is looking at you.
~ Shirley Jackson
She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.
~ Shirley Jackson
the sick voice inside her which whispered, Get away from here, get away.
~ Shirley Jackson
don't like the sound of that," says Suze at last.
~ Sophie Kinsella
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
~ Sophocles
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm." His
~ Ellen Datlow
He certainly is very charming, but he makes me feel slightly ill at ease—almost as if I were a woman manquée, if there could be such a thing—you know, something lacking in me." "Oh, well, that's hardly his fault." "No," Dulcie agreed. "Mine, of course.
~ Barbara Pym
You know, I equate work here to when you come home at night and you say to your wife, 'Honey, is everything OK?' and she says, 'Yes, yes, everything is OK.' But deep down you know in your heart something isn't right. Well, that's the feeling I have here. And what's not right about working here is that I always feel like an unwanted guest.
~ Barbara Stanny (now Huson)
When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.
~ Molly Bloom
Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.
~ Jenny Eclair
I am afraid of heights and water, but I haven't been able to shake off my fear of cockroaches.
~ Shamita Shetty