Quotes About Unease

#1. One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.

Ralph Merkle

#2. I write for ghosts; the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease.

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. Leaning into the wall as if all of the hunger of looking would find the secret of her sleepless unease there.

Ray Bradbury

#5. Our keen sense of our own unease does not mean that we are stuck, therefore. It means that we are already moving. But where, and how?

Yuval Levin

#6. The name of the place was Is Vesnara Shast, which translated to The Wandering Road. What Lila didn't know, not until she saw Lenos's unease, was that the Arnesian word for road - shast - was the same as the word for soul.

V.E Schwab

#7. My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

Dana Goodyear

#8. Nowhere is America's unease with reproduction better demonstrated than on a 1952 episode of "I Love Lucy." The TV comedy made the bold move to incorporate Lucille Ball's real-life pregnancy into its storyline. The actors, however, weren't allowed to say the word "pregnant.

Anonymous

#9. The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.

Michael Chabon

#10. Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.

Rand Paul

#11. We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.

Neil Gaiman

#12. She examined with curious detachment - so rare for her to feel anything these days - and discovered that what she felt was unease.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#13. Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Tim Crouch

#14. When you are at unease with 'what is,' you experience suffering; when you are at ease with 'what is,' you experience peace; and when you are in love with 'what is,' you experience bliss.

Yogi Kanna

#15. The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

George Stephanopoulos

#16. The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Ben Okri

#17. Was it so wrong to relish the feeling anyway? To enjoy the way it lingered, leaving her with a wistful awareness, a pleasant unease, as if she had forgotten to do something? Yes, it probably was wrong. But she did not wish it away.

Julie Klassen

#18. Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.

Ian Kershaw

#19. They both sat on the pavement and watched with a certain unease as huge children bounced heavily along the sand and wild horses thundered through the sky taking fresh supplies of reinforced railings to the Uncertain Areas.

Douglas Adams

#20. shared his unease.

George R R Martin

#21. Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.

Joyce Carol Oates

#22. A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

China Mieville

#23. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

Alan Bennett

#25. despite a conducive environment and comforting faith, there is unease among the rooms' inhabitants, a rising tide of something close to fear. They know that a terrible ghost is abroad in the cloisters of Microsoft. The

Glyn Moody

#26. What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

Lisa See

#27. The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#28. Well, I guess my unease with that is ... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?

David Sanborn

#29. The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'

Sasa Stanisic

#30. Theo awoke to a weight of vague unease, not heavy enough to be called anxiety, but a mild unfocused depression, like the last tatters of an unremembered but disagreeable dream.

P.D. James

#31. I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

Steve Coogan

#32. When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

M.L. Stedman

#33. Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.

George Packer

#34. I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

Truman Capote

#35. When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

Nicholas Sparks

#36. Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

P.D. James

#37. I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city
that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.

Laurie Lee

#38. Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.

Ivan Turgenev

#39. When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah

Gena Showalter

#40. I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.

Rineke Dijkstra

#41. Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

Rick Bass

#42. Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear.

Greg Behrendt

#43. Ever since we'd found Wilson, his cousin's calmness bothered me. I realized now I felt less unease with angry outbursts from grieving relatives, than I had with the slow, ticking time bomb of the quiet and collected.
--Prepped for Kill, Marjorie Gardens Mystery Book 2

A.E.H. Veenman

#44. Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

Khaled Hosseini

#45. For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much.

Susan Cain

#46. His warning amused her and revealed a hint of his unease in the upcoming meeting. How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another.

Grace Draven

#47. When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are. When you don't feel at home in the Now, no matter where you go, you will carry unease with you. The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?

Eckhart Tolle

#48. A good part of any day in Los Angeles is spent driving, alone, through streets devoid of meaning to the driver, which is one reason the place exhilarates some people, and floods others with an amorphous unease.

Joan Didion

#49. Unease stole through her, and she shivered. Now that the moment had arrived, she was nervous. Damn it, this never happens in my fantasies.

Amanda Usen

#50. Miles paused at the door. "Ah - about Tav Calhoun - " "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#51. My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

Daphne Merkin

#52. If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.

Richard V. Allen

#53. But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease.
Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt ... empty.

Kim Harrison

#54. If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.

Eckhart Tolle

#55. May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

Potter Stewart

#56. had shifty eyes. Unease niggled

Caroline Fyffe

#57. We are uneasy. And unease leads men and women to seek change, to innovate, to build on the best that they have and to uproot the worst.

Yuval Levin

#58. There's no need to whisper," Elizabeth told her now. "You could sing at the top of your voices and no one would hear you out here on the water." But the women smiled at her suggestion in surprise and unease, as if she had told them that they could fly.

Sara Donati

#59. Let nothing put me to unease,
nothing to deceive.
I have conceived,
I exist.

Because I am blessed,
To gather time,
in hearing,
my breath,
so tranquil.

To life,
I am, thankful.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#60. Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

Joko Beck

#61. Mild speech is the best form of showing the Calmness of ones soul, Rough talk forms all types of unease for all man - you won't be able to talk to God Roughly though - so keep silent.

A Gentlemen

#62. My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.

Emma Forrest

#63. I'm quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 - and by extension, Windows 8 - as the safe, privacy-enhancing choice, capitalizing on Google's many government woes and consumers' overall unease with the search giant's power.

John Battelle

#64. Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either.

Fernando Pessoa

#65. Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.

Bryant McGill