Really Upsetting Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.

Shay Mitchell

#3. He's been going on about the End of All Things for as long as I've known him," she said carelessly. "And we're all still here. Hey, want to see a really upsetting party trick I can do with two flick-knives and an unwilling volunteer?

Simon R. Green

#4. 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

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

Seth Green

#6. For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

Gillian Jacobs

#7. 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

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

Craig Ferguson

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

Richard Engel

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

Barbara Pym

#11. I think I am upsetting the coach.

Yao Ming

#12. 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

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

Seth Godin

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

David Harvey

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

Jonny Lee Miller

#16. I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#17. I have a right to get upset about upsetting things.

Rainbow Rowell

#18. We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

David Suzuki

#19. We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but.

Nick Harkaway

#20. No matter how screwed up your life is today, today is just a collection of moments that stop and start whenever you want them to. And nothing upsetting matters when you know that tomorrow is gonna be better than yesterday

Robyn Schneider

#21. I wish he wouldn't do this when he's on me. It's really very upsetting.

Tamora Pierce

#22. I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

Sara Novic

#23. I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

Anne Roiphe

#24. 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

#25. The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these people and the strengths of the culture, of who these Americans were. That, actually, is uplifting.

Aldis Hodge

#26. That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.

Miroslav Vitous

#27. It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling - or new. The character itself of being startling, spectacular, or upsetting has become conventionalized, part of safe good taste.

Clement Greenberg

#28. The deaths in this series are never taken lightly, they're never done with a sense of glee. They weigh on me the same way they weigh on you. These characters are very real to me, and their deaths are upsetting even to me.
(The Walking Dead #167: "A Certain Doom")

Robert Kirkman

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

John Ruskin

#30. 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

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

Joan D. Vinge

#32. 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

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

Jenji Kohan

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

Francoise Sagan

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Julian Lennon

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Munia Khan

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. All upset is a fear of rejection.

Bryant McGill

#49. 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

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

David Mamet

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

Anonymous

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

David Suzuki