Most Upsetting Quotes

#1. James W. Pennebaker and his associates at the University of Texas have conducted extensive research on the benefits of journaling. His findings: if you want relief, write about your most upsetting experiences, write through the pain, and connect painful events with your life story.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#2. What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

Julie Burchill

#3. The lamplight gleamed on the Magus' white grin. People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists

Joe Abercrombie

#4. You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.

W.B.Yeats

#5. Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Laura Schlessinger

#6. It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

David Mamet

#7. Keep smiling and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.

Anonymous

#8. Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

David Suzuki

#9. I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, feelings which are persistent had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them.

Carl Rogers

#10. It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

Seth Green

#11. Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

M.F.K. Fisher

#12. Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

Craig Ferguson

#13. Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

Richard Engel

#14. Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there ...

Barbara Pym

#15. I think I am upsetting the coach.

Yao Ming

#16. What if I'm destined to be single for the rest of my life, and you're upsetting the balance of nature and God's plan?

Kristin Billerbeck

#17. I think it's even worse when you're in a situation where the object of your desire is being nice to you and liking you, but that's not enough, they've got to hate you or love you; anything in between is really upsetting and Arthur finds that very, very difficult. And

Douglas Adams

#18. If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Seth Godin

#19. The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

David Harvey

#20. Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

Jonny Lee Miller

#21. But what was truly upsetting was the way he separated my hands from his body. They wept silently. Either that or I was sweating. Most likely the latter. He had the weirdest effect on me.

Kylie Scott

#22. And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.

John Green

#23. When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.

Mae Whitman

#24. Nor do I like being told upsetting news - unless there is a good reason. I can't help but feel that there is an element of cruelty, if not sadism, in friends telling one another upsetting things for no reason except to observe their reactions.

Joyce Carol Oates

#25. There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.

Mira Grant

#26. Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Joan D. Vinge

#27. One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

Francois Rabelais

#28. First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

Jenji Kohan

#29. We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.

Francoise Sagan

#30. It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.

Arthur Smith

#31. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#32. DOLORES UMBRIDGE (to Scorpius): I don't know what game you're playing but you're upsetting the dementors and entirely ruining Voldemort Day.

Jack Thorne

#33. I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

Julian Lennon

#34. That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.

Chelsea Clinton

#35. Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Stephen King

#36. Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

John Ruskin

#37. There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.
Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

Agatha Christie

#38. I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Grant Morrison

#39. It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Sophie Turner

#40. Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves.

Munia Khan

#41. I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Charlize Theron

#42. I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.

Corbin Bleu

#43. I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

Fred Wilson

#44. All upset is a fear of rejection.

Bryant McGill