Disturbing Quotes - Page 9

• I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

  Derrick Jensen

  Disrespect, Culture, Arbitrary

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.19, Seven Stories Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

  Julius Lester

  Simple, Silence, Sound

  Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Boys, Opportunity

  4 Copy quote

• Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: "I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people."

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Doubt, Doorways

  "The Lighthouse of the Lord" by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. February 2001.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

  Edward Hopper

  Vision, Elements, Replacements

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Honest, Limitless

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Writing, People, Serial Killer

  8 Copy quote

• When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

  Marion Cotillard

  Vacation, Video, Spending Time

  4 Copy quote

• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  Kate Chopin

  Tangled, Soul, Murmuring

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Dave Chappelle

  Language

  4 Copy quote

• Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

  David Bowie

  Challenges, Music And Life, Life Is

  FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

  Lewis Black

  Valentines Day, Holiday, Looks

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Christian, Views, Economic

  12 Copy quote

• I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Reality, People

  4 Copy quote

• There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

  David Bohm

  Block, Differences, People

  63 Copy quote

• Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Thinking, World, Way

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Thinking, Use

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Smile, Steps, Santa

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.47, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Book, Reflection

  13 Copy quote

• It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face.

  Anne Rice

  Night, Thinking, Voice

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.183, Ballantine Books

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Impact, America

  "Carter blasts Bush, Blair on Iraq". www.reuters.com. May 20, 2007.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “The Return of the Native”, p.352, Broadview Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Helen Keller

  Life, Rejoice

  "To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Morning, Sarcasm, Boys

  6 Copy quote

• I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

  Rick Baker

  Cheer, People, Kind

  4 Copy quote