Top 79 Quotes About Uneasiness
#1. You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#2. Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
Coco Chanel
#3. The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account
James Madison
#4. Something hot rolled over in my stomach. It felt like uneasiness that maybe shared a condo wall with terror. And maybe arousal lived a couple of doors down.
Eli Easton
#5. I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls "ambivalence," the often unacknowledged uneasiness that some of the fortunate feel about their place in the world, the thing he once told me he designed his life to avoid.
Tracy Kidder
#6. Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
Hannah More
#7. Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time.
Elena Ferrante
#8. My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Now returning, as changed to my friend as my town was to me, I distorted his picture, muddied his memory. When I went away I had died, and so became fixed and unchangeable. My return caused only confusion and uneasiness.
John Steinbeck
#9. Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.
Billy Graham
#10. Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
H.G.Wells
#11. He inspired uneasiness. That was it! Uneasiness. Not a definite mistrust - just uneasiness - nothing more. You have no idea how effective such a ... a ... faculty can be.
Joseph Conrad
#12. Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.
Arthur Nersesian
#13. By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
William Hazlitt
#14. The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed.
Daphne Du Maurier
#15. Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.
Catharine Beecher
#16. Worldly life means [state of continuous] agitation and uneasiness. What makes one like it, it is a wonder in itself!
Dada Bhagwan
#17. Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.
Samuel Johnson
#18. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.
Maya Angelou
#19. The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. We're just going around all day like unconscious machines, and meanwhile there's all this rage and worry and uneasiness just building up and building up inside us
Wallace Shawn
#21. The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
Ben Shahn
#22. Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
Charles Dudley Warner
#23. A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Ugo Betti
#24. I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.
Bill O'Reilly
#25. If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#26. The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
Pema Chodron
#27. Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness.
Bryant McGill
#28. Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security.
Selena Roberts
#29. He [Pigpen] appears too damn happy and that causes a wave of uneasiness.
Katie McGarry
#30. Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
Norm MacDonald
#31. Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge
John Locke
#32. Life has much uneasiness; that is certain. Always remember that, and it will never surprise you. - James Boswell
Mason Currey
#33. Anxiety is not normal. Believe it or not, you were NOT designed to live distressed or be consumed by mental uneasiness.
Rene Vidal
#34. The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
William Hazlitt
#35. Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
Georges Bataille
#36. Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarrassment about himself in which he floated with log-like calm.
Evelyn Waugh
#37. COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness.
Ambrose Bierce
#38. I saw him look at the clock and at the door. He was thinking of leaving. He turned his face gently away from a kiss she was about to give him. There was a suggestion of uneasiness, almost disgust, in his expression.
Henri Barbusse
#39. I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
Victor Serge
#40. I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness.
Caroline Kettlewell
#41. Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that he had not been, as Lucretius observes.
Christopher Hitchens
#43. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.
Lydia Sigourney
#44. Shivering as she gripped the handle, she looked around the cabin one last time. The uneasiness was still there. Why wouldn't it leave her be?
Deborah Grace Staley
#45. This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.
Haruki Murakami
#46. Yet the laughter had a tinge of uneasiness about it, because this business about nineteen had gotten a trifle weird.
Stephen King
#48. What am I to myself
that must be remembered,
insisted upon
so often? Is it
that never the ease,
even the hardness,
of rain falling
will have for me
something other than this,
something not so insistent
am I to be locked in this
final uneasiness.
Robert Creeley
#49. The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#50. We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#51. Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
Aleister Crowley
#52. Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.
David Hume
#53. The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable.
Verne Lundquist
#54. Noah the first-born, tall and strange, walking always with a wondering look on his face, calm and puzzled. He had never been angry in his life. He looked in wonder at angry people, wonder and uneasiness, as normal people look at the insane.
John Steinbeck
#55. Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.
Joseph Addison
#56. We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
William Hazlitt
#58. The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.
Marcus Aurelius
#59. Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
Tom Barrett
#61. To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness.
Gunnar Myrdal
#62. Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#63. The world is entrapped through uneasiness, not through diseases (illnesses). Diseases (illnesses) are caused by uneasiness. Do the trees get any diseases (illnesses)? Do the crows become paralyzed or have high blood pressure?
Dada Bhagwan
#64. Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
William Shenstone
#65. Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.
G. Alan Marlatt
#66. Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
Barbara Tuchman
#67. I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.
Arthur Balfour
#68. He was thinking of himself and the impression he was making, as she could tell by the sound of his voice, and his emphasis and his uneasiness.
Virginia Woolf
#69. Romola had had contact with no mind that could stir the larger possibilities of her nature; they lay folded and crushed like embryonic wings, making no element in her consciousness beyond an occasional vague uneasiness.
George Eliot
#70. Though I constantly felt like I was out of my comfort zone, maybe God wanted me totally in a place of uneasiness in order that I might rely on Him. Truly, His power could be made perfect in my weakness.
Christy Barritt
#71. Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her - the opportunity, the courage.
Gustave Flaubert
#72. The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her.
Pauline Reage
#73. I arrived in Mexico seeking the peace I had not found in Europe because of the turmoil there - for me it was impossible to paint amidst so much uneasiness.
Remedios Varo
#74. Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#75. True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him ... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.
Ludwig Von Mises
#76. The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
Stanislaw Lem
#77. [Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
Wallace Stegner
#78. 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
#79. She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.
Kate Morton
