Top 100 Disturb Quotes
#1. Tanzie knew Nicky was thinking what she was thinking - that Mum had finally gone mad. But she had read somewhere that mad people were like sleepwalkers - it was best not to disturb them. So she nodded really slowly, like this was all making good sense.
Jojo Moyes
#2. Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.
Marilyn Monroe
#3. Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.
Atisa
#4. We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.
Judith Martin
#5. The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.
John Hunt Morgan
#6. It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.
Muso Soseki
#7. Leave to every one the care of what belongs to him, and disturb not thyself with what is said or done in the world. - ST. THOMAS AQUINAS.
Various
#8. Never give anybody permission to disturb your peace.
Always ignore negative comment.
Dwell on positive thoughts and occupied your mind with songs of praise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.
James A. Baldwin
#10. Your sense of who you are determines what you perceive as you needs and what matters to you in life - and whatever matters to you will have the power to upset and disturb you.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. Recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.
Margaret Mead
#13. There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.
Auberon Waugh
#14. To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.
Alice Munro
#15. When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
Bell Hooks
#16. When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.
Katherine Mansfield
#17. It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.
Marie Antoinette
#18. Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.
Thomas Sherlock
#19. It must be important or he wouldn't dare disturb me now," he muttered.
Then he drew away to look at me. "If it's not, I'll kill him and return to you directly.
Jeaniene Frost
#20. Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation
Boyd K. Packer
#21. There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
Andres Serrano
#22. The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
Michael Ramsey
#23. O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah (swt) calls al-nafs al mutmaina (the reassured soul). (Qur'an 89:27) The soul that Allah (swt) calls back saying:
Yasmin Mogahed
#24. Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.
Teresa Of Avila
#25. That's what I said. There's no peace to disturb. I kept telling the cop: No. Peace. To. Disturb. Man.
Jandy Nelson
#26. I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
#27. JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.
Lance Ulanoff
#28. There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple.
Zoe Heller
#29. The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.
J. Oswald Sanders
#30. The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you - but finally it is your personal decision.
Billy Graham
#32. Listen, I'm going to go lock myself in the coat closet, okay? Don't disturb me if you can help it?"
She frowned at me.
"Telepathy stuff," I said. "It may not work, but I've got to try.
Alex Hughes
#33. Wild nature always gives a very simple message to humanity: Do not disturb me!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.
Mother Teresa
#35. There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?"
I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
Louise Rennison
#36. There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.
Thomas Merton
#37. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
John R.W. Stott
#38. Never allow opinions of others to disturb your inner tranquillity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#39. Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.
Dean Ornish
#40. Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome
Hartley Coleridge
#41. As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART
Charlie Chaplin
#42. People didn't want to disturb norms. If one looked like they fit into the greater scheme of things, then it took a kind of courage to step away from the herd and stand out, challenging that.
Wildbow
#44. Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#45. My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.
Joyce Carol Oates
#46. There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
John Calvin
#47. He continued: I should warn you that the chamber we are about to pass into does not literally exist within our planet. It is a little too ... large. We are about to pass through a gateway into a vast tract of hyperspace. It may disturb you.
Douglas Adams
#48. As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Gautama Buddha
#49. The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.
Gregory Bateson
#50. Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
John Grierson
#51. He managed not to disturb too much of the flower bed as he tamped soil over the Jaffa Cake box that had taken on the role of hamster coffin so well.
Anonymous
#52. Do not let the future disturb you, for you will arrive there, if you arrive, with the same reason you now apply to the present.
Marcus Aurelius
#53. Do not allow outer chaos disturb your inner tranquility, serenity, and peace.
Debasish Mridha
#54. My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.
Miguel De Unamuno
#55. I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.
Ramin Bahrani
#56. I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
Ben Okri
#58. To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
Francois Fenelon
#59. Real responsibility means to live and speak in such a way as to help peoples faith and not to disturb it.
Radhanath Swami
#60. Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal.
Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
Rita Mae Brown
#61. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
#62. That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
Nora Ephron
#63. When you start replacing facts with feelings, you disturb the equilibrium between right and wrong, confusing them as one and the same while encouraging more destructive behavior. As a stigma is erased, a behavior becomes more prevalent.
Greg Gutfeld
#64. Since I sleep fully clothed, I'm able to answer right away. By sleeping with your clothes on, you don't need to climb under the sheets. You don't need to disturb a perfectly made bed or even fold the bed back into the couch.
Adam Johnson
#65. human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#66. Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it ... so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.
David Lloyd George
#67. Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
Thomas Merton
#70. It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people
Woody Guthrie
#71. Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
I am sent with broom before;
To sweep the dust behind the door.
William Shakespeare
#72. (I used to hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my office door, but people interpreted this as "His door is closed, but he wants me to know he's in there. I'll knock.") Be
Paul J. Silvia
#73. Marriage appeared something remote and forbidding, with which desire for Barbara had little or no connexion. She seemed to exist merely to disturb my rest: to be possessed neither by lawful nor unlawful means: made of dreams, yet to be captured only by reality.
Anthony Powell
#74. It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
Gerald Stern
#77. Disturbing anything [situation] results in damage. To improve, you do not need to disturb anything that is natural and has turned bad. You need to make way out; you need to find a solution.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.
Oswald Chambers
#79. This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.
Zane
#80. Let not the wise disturb the mind of the unwise in their selfish work. Let him, working with devotion, show them the joy of good work.
Anonymous
#81. Emotion manifests itself simultaneously with an alteration of the internal secretions, the circulation, blood pressure, respiration, etc., but equally, unconscious contents excite, and in neurotic cases disturb, the sympathetic nervous system either directly, or indirectly, via the emotions aroused.
Erich Neumann
#82. When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.
Ernest Hemingway,
#83. If your God can't disturb your life, then you don't have a real God.
Justin Buzzard
#84. This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.
Nancy Isenberg
#85. The reason is that for so many years he has been developing a deep reserve of internal calm, so deep that the external unrest cannot disturb it. Interior calm gives birth to calm action.
Matthew Kelly
#86. Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#87. I sometimes wear headphones even though I'm not listening to anything just so I'm left alone. It's the next best thing to wearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign.
Karl Pilkington
#88. Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.
Princess Shikishi
#89. Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
Sue Grafton
#90. In all discussions of Hell we should keep steadily before our eyes the possible damnation, not of our enemies nor our friends (since both these disturb the reason) but of ourselves.
C.S. Lewis
#91. When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
Jean Cocteau
#92. The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them!
Dan Millman
#93. gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I
Bram Stoker
#94. Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.
Sidney Greenberg
#95. I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money, nor twist your kitten's neck off, nor disturb a congregation, etc., your business is done. I know things of myself, which would make every friend I have fly me as a plague patient.
Charles Lamb
#96. I do not dare to disturb it with the truth, because I am too busy clinging to it for support.
Veronica Roth
#97. Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. The serve is the only thing you know about yourself when you play tennis. If you make it right, you make it right. Nobody can touch you when you serve. Nobody can disturb you. You have the ball in the hand.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
#100. The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.
Robert C. Solomon
