Unsettled Quotes

“I do not think the Bible is weak, Mr. Morgan; and that is not the reason why I do not wish to read anything that is written against it. But I know that I am weak and ignorant, and that I might not be able to answer in my own mind, and to my satisfaction, all that clever men may choose to say or to write. And so my mind might get unsettled, and i have no wish to have it unsettled.”

“With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. "I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people," he says, "but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.”

“When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”)”

“I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.”

“People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

“Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things”

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”

“The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.”

“The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.”