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Quotes About Unease

John was grinning in his shifty way, the way men smile at each other when one has a hatchet and the other doesn't.
~ Haven Kimmel
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
~ Steve Coogan
The question of the moral status of wealth, and the relation of Christian faith to issues of economic justice and responsibility, seems to me one of the areas in which Christians are most confused, divided, and uneasy.
~ Sondra Ely Wheeler
The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.
~ David J. Lieberman
When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
~ Michael Chabon
Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car.
~ Michael Connelly
For Bulgakov, however, the greatest underlying source of unease, amounting at times to despair, was something less tangible though very real to him, since it occurs as an ever-present refrain throughout these stories. This was the sense of being a lone soldier of reason and enlightenment pitted against the vast, dark, ocean-like mass of peasant ignorance and superstition... [in] the fearsome, pre-literate, mediaeval world of the peasantry
~ Michael Glenny
I hate flying. I sit back and squirm.
~ Amanda Blake
Creating chaos provides excitement for some people, especially those who are uneasy with silence, those who distract themselves from their own problems by focusing outward, those who feel empty inside and need to fill themselves up with activity, and those who were raised in an environment in which harmony and peace were unknown.
~ Beverly Engel
La desazón es un instinto y un modo de advertencia.
~ Bram Stoker
I feel gawky and morbid as somebody in a sideshow.
~ Sylvia Plath
And in short, I was afraid.
~ T.S. Eliot
I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.
~ Tama Janowitz
Lo único cierto era el peso en la boca del estómago la sospecha física de que algo no andaba bien, de que casi nunca había andando bien.
~ Julio Cortazar
Yes, that's the bore of comfort, said Lord Warburton. We only know when we're uncomfortable.
~ Henry James
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
~ Jeremy Renner
As McChrystal took the lay of the land, "I felt like we were high-school students who had wandered into a Mafia-owned bar."34
~ Steve Coll
Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't eat.
~ Paul McGann
Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.
~ Michel Faber
The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment.
~ Michel Faber
In the eyes of God, all men and women are naked. Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.
~ Michel Faber
He wished his tongue wasn't quite so dry and that the skin round his neck didn't feel so very tight.
~ Michelle Magorian