Quotes About Unease

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

There was a sweet, seductive feeling of comfort and closeness, with no unease at all.

Why was she so anxious? Because she had anxiety.

I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still can't quite shake.

and has created an atmosphere of suspicion

She looked as if she'd swallowed an assortment of her own hangnails.

the abnormal alway excites aversion, distrust, and fear

abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

I did not like the way he looked at healthy living bodies

Wallace seemed to draw strength from the restiveness in the air. "He has a bugle voice of venom," a commentator from the New Republic wrote, "and a gut knowledge of the prejudices of his audience." A Newsweek correspondent covering the Wallace rallies, noting "the heat, the rebel yells, the flags waving," and the legions of "psychologically threadbare" supporters, declared that Wallace "speaks to the unease everyone senses in America.

On the one hand, this whole crazy day still felt like a no-harm-no-foul situation. She could leave here unscathed. On the other, she kept looking over her shoulder, as though she were being followed.

The past is fragile, as fragile as bones grown brittle with age, as fragile as ghosts seen in windows or the dreams that fall apart upon waking and leave nothing behind them but a feeling of unease or distress or, more rarely, a kind of eerie satisfaction.

You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about.

kept glancing uneasily

too, though she felt less sure

I was filled with a deep and immutable dread.

You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and

when something happens to give you unease—well, you don't seem to know how to manage it. And you run. Or you decide it isn't worth it.

There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily spooked or driven to cynicism - the country is diverse but, paradoxically, extremely insular.

nebulous misgivings

galloping gut-rot.

Even when she slept, her anxieties did not.

But Matt's unease returned the moment he entered the Sprint store and started hearing about the two-year commitment. The salesman's smile looked somehow satanic, like the devil in one of those movies where a naïve guy sells his soul. When the salesman whipped out a map of the United States—the "nonroaming" areas, he informed them, were in bright red—Matt started to back away. As

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere