Top 100 Disturbs Quotes
#1. Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
Carl Sagan
#2. It is true: God disturbs our comfortable day-to-day existence. Jesus' kingship goes hand in hand with his Passion.
Pope Benedict XVI
#3. The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend.
Oscar Wilde
#4. Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
Preston Manning
#5. Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
Jean Genet
#6. Art is meant to provoke emotions, Avery. Its sole purpose is to arouse our senses, even if it disturbs. Even if it's ugly. Even if it fucking scares the living shit out of you.
Lara Adrian
#7. Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
Natalie Goldberg
#8. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
Winston Churchill
#9. I'm dying twice as fast
as any other American
between eighteen and thirty-five
This disturbs me,
but I try not to show it in public.
Essex Hemphill
#10. He who has lived and thought can't help
despising people in his soul;
him who has felt disturbs
the ghost of irrecoverable days;
for him there are no more enchantments;
him does the snake of memories,
him does repentance bite.
Alexander Pushkin
#11. As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. It disturbs me mostly ... is the willful, deliberate denial (by the FDA, of) our own citizens, a fair chance to use Laetrile, when all the record (shows) it is not toxic, ... is safe, ... and is effective.
Luther L. Bohanon
#13. Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos.
Dean Koontz
#14. Praise of power leads to weakness; Love of things leads to loss; The wise one leads by filling people's hearts; He destroys illusion and disturbs those who believe they are wise; He does nothing yet everything happens.
Laozi
#15. The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
#16. Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.
Marcus Aurelius
#17. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#18. Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.
Tom DeLay
#19. I feel concerned by what happens in the world ... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.
Martine Franck
#20. I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man ...
William Wordsworth
#21. Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Cesare Pavese
#22. Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.
Laura Owens
#23. When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.
Charles Lindbergh
#24. Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
Charlotte Bronte
#25. Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
Judith Orloff
#26. A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words
Saint Augustine
#27. But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.
Jonathan Franzen
#28. We Indians are an extremely intelligent people but we can progress as a nation only when we learn the secret of unleashing this positive power of the people. Whenever this happens it disturbs a lot of people - because they know that a giant is waking up.
Verghese Kurien
#29. Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.
Benjamin Disraeli
#30. The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
Daniel Baldwin
#31. That is a great mystery," said Doctor Winter. "That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world - how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery.
John Steinbeck
#32. What is Faith? When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer. What is Sin? When a thing disturbs (the peace of) your heart, give it up.
Anonymous
#33. Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.
Teresa Of Avila
#34. If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.
Leo Steinberg
#35. She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.
Alice Hoffman
#36. The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.
Epicurus
#37. The heater doesn't work. The engine sounds sort of like a pig. And don't open the glove compartment because it disturbs the mice.
Juliet Rosetti
#39. As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
#40. If lies comfort, and truth disturbs - self is being agitated as a result of prideful living.
T.F. Hodge
#41. The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
William Cowper
#42. The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.
Dean Koontz
#43. You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs you on that fifth day, when you desperately need it.
Susan Rothenberg
#44. Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken
errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#45. Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.
Yohji Yamamoto
#46. Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#47. The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates an internal war that manifests differently in each individual, but almost always includes anger, withdrawal and severe depression.
B.G. Bowers
#48. Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#49. When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
Anurag Kashyap
#50. Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#51. Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one's rest and plays hob with one's appetite.
Stephen King
#52. The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone De Beauvoir
#54. I try not to sleep. It disturbs the circles I'm growing under my eyes.
Lilith Saintcrow
#55. For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.
Saint John Chrysostom
#57. What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things
Epictetus
#58. I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a state of anxiety.
Robert Lopez
#59. Believe your pain.' This awful bear hug is no mistake. Nothing that disturbs you is. Remember all along that there is no embrace in this world that won't finally unclasp.
Joseph Brodsky
#60. In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.
E.L. Konigsburg
#61. What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
Epictetus
#62. Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.
Glenn Close
#63. The water is still and smooth. Polished glass. Not a ripple of wind disturbs the dark surface. Low-rising mist drifts off liquid mountains floating against a purple-bruised sky. An eager breath shudders past my lips. Soon the sun will break.
Sophie Jordan
#64. Shine light on electrons you'll cause them to swerve./ The act of observing disturbs the observed.
L. M. Boyd
#65. But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth?
Mikhail Bulgakov
#66. What we strive for
in perfection
is not what turns us
into the lit angel
we desire
what disturbs
and then nourishes
has everything
we need.
David Whyte
#67. It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men.
Leo Tolstoy
#68. It disturbs me to see a football coach fired.
Sid Gillman
#69. Psychoanalysis is right to be mistrustful. One of its rules runs: whatever disturbs the continuation of the work of analysis is a resistance.
Sigmund Freud
#70. Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.
Brad Stone
#71. Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
John Cage
#72. Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at more than an intellectual level. You need to surprise people with something that disturbs their view that everything is perfect.
John P. Kotter
#73. All these still places in his soul that he disturbs for me. When
Alexis Hall
#74. You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
L.A. Meyer
#75. It disturbs me when Obama says in the State of the Union address that he wants to make dropping out of school at 18 illegal, because people learn differently and before there are forms of learning for every type of person in the world, we shouldn't be condemned for leaving.
Ezra Miller
#76. We all live in a kind of continuous dream," I told him. "When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality.
Jeff VanderMeer
#77. Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It's not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.
Seneca.
#78. Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
Loren Eiseley
#79. It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.
Max Von Sydow
#80. Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
Gore Vidal
#81. It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.
Luis Suarez
#82. Knowledge is a strong stream of water turned on us through a hose. It disturbs our roots
O. Henry
#83. The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
David Lynch
#84. Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.
Tony La Russa
#85. The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.
Tite Kubo
#86. Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
Aldous Huxley
#87. It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#88. If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.
Marcus Aurelius
#89. I am mentally strong, but physically I'm constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don't talk about it and make myself sick with it.
Sonam Kapoor
#90. Who values the past lives sentimentally.
Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity.
Who balances time creates harmony.
Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.
Who solves complexity opens continuity.
Angelica Hopes
#92. It really disturbs me that the environmental movement has been co-opted by creation-worshippers instead of being encouraged by the Creator-worshippers.
Joel Salatin
#93. Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.
John Ruskin
#94. Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.
Kathryn Stockett
#95. If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#96. That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world - how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The
John Steinbeck
#97. I abhor running real risks, but it's not because I'm afraid of feeling too intensely. It's because they break my perfect focus on my sensations, and this disturbs and depersonalizes me.
I never go where there's risk. I fear the tedium of dangers.
Fernando Pessoa
#98. Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
Timothy Leary
#99. He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Epicurus
#100. Comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable:
Wally Lamb
