Top 575 Disturbing Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.

The Islamization process in Arab countries is very disturbing.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.

A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man.

If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

We don't like it when the president doesn't even say 'Islamic terror.' It's very disturbing.

I loved 'Breaking Bonaduce.' I was amazed it made it on TV. It was so raw, so disturbing.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich.

Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.

I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness.

I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

Israel is a solid ally of the United States. We will rise to Israel's defense, if need be. So this kind of menacing talk [by the President of Iran] is disturbing. It's not only disturbing to the United States, it's disturbing for other countries in the world, as well. Asked whether he meant the U.S. would rise to Israel's defense militarily, Bush said: "You bet, we'll defend Israel."

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.