Emotional Unease Quotes

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying - all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable.

I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right.

I'm gay. It feels so weird saying it on camera!

Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all.

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance. The poorest mechanic, nay, the man who lives upon common alms, gets him his set of admirers, and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him. This ambition, which is natural to the soul of man, might, methinks, receive a very happy turn; and, if it were rightly directed, contribute as much to a person's advantage, as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet.

I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

Yo! Cam!” Beer Guy jumped off the porch and jogged down the sidewalk, passing me a quick look. “What you up to, man?” Saved by the frat boy. Cam’s gaze didn’t veer from me, but his grin started to slip. “Nothing, Kevin, just trying to have a conversation.

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

I'm not at ease with the word "love."

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.

If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel uncomfortable. I think if you're starting to feel uncomfortable with something when you're writing it, that's the reason really to push on with it.

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.