Unsettling Quotes

“Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.”

“Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.”

“There are settling girls, and there are unsettling girls. The ones who seem to have it in them to be flyers are the ones who want to snuggle into settling. The ones who look as settled as old housedogs want to twist their way into flying. Necessarily, you must be defensive about being a settling sort of girl.”

“When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.”

“philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by taking what we know from familiar and unquestioned settings and making it strange. that's how the examples work. ... philosophy estranges us, not by providing us with new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing. The risk is once the familiar turns strange it is never quiet the same again. Self-knowledge is like a lost innocence, however unsettling, you find it; it can never be unthought or unknown.”

“Decide.Take one of the most unsettling things you feel exist in your life and decide.Decide to meet it with love and understanding.Decide to meet it with a proactive spirit that believes that a solution, an ease, a peaceful resolve rests in the meeting.Prepare your heart for what it feels like to be joyous over the result. Give life to this solution with your breath.Let any fear be a helpmate, let it actually support and lift you to an awareness that your next opportunity for growth is revisiting you through this present unsettling because you are now more than capable and authentically ready to meet it.Learn and value the lesson and transcend its repetitive nature.”

“So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He had the murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly. Five and a half thousand souls onboard. Five and a half thousand suspects. Three days. So far, nothing. Now it would be taken further by the planetary authorities on the colony world below. A forensic team (cunningly disguised as a cleaning crew) was now rummaging through Smiffs apartment, examining every single particle. He had a feeling -- a strong feeling, about what they were going to find. Somehow, Biscay was of the opinion that this was going to be another contender for the Unsolved Murders show.”

“Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.”

“We all get to discover who we really are at some point, and when we do, it can be quite unsettling.”

“Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.”

“Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.”