Top 170 Unsettling Quotes & Sayings

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life.

Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

There's something unsettling about being continually sold something.

Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea.

A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

I actually felt diminished by watching [Donald Trump's]. If this is what discourse has become in America, who even wants to know about it? It's just too demoralizing and unsettling.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.

People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.

Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.

One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

We frame things in an off-kilter way because it's unsettling. In the 'Mr. Robot' world, that's the norm, and it's the norm for the point of view that we're looking for, which is Elliot's. With our compositions and our visual language and camera movements, it's important to always evoke that unsettling feeling underneath every scene.

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

Seeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you're trying to discover a character and actualize it.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

The more unsettling the more I feel at home.

Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term "still" seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

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

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

I read something recently about authorities using facial recognition in cities to track people simply walking around. That's kind of unsettling.

The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential

There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.

I simply think that there are things in this world that are relics. We have unsettling remnants of Atlantis. They have found things off Bermuda, great walls and things of that sort. This seems to indicate that there were races and cultures that went before us. And to me, that's an unsettling idea.

Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.