Disturbing Quotes

“Disappear Here.
The syringe fills with blood.
You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.
Wonder if he's for sale.
People are afraid to merge. To merge.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

“If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
― John Stott

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ("When is Art?")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The Slice and Dice Fanatic uses his sexual skills to lure his victims into his realm of fun.”
― RB Le `Deach, My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories

“You don't think I could bring myself to mark your lovely skin? I'll take my knife to you, if that's the case. I'll carve my name in your breast so that every beat of your heart will remind you that you are mine—and mine alone. Because blood is binding, and because I would rather see you destroyed than see you free or in the possession of another, so I suggest you not try me, or you will suffer as no earthly creature has.” He slammed her back against the wall. “Or ever will. But that is a suggestion, and one you are free to disregard at your own peril. But you are are going to answer my question.”
― Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

“Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“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

“This moment
everything is present here, except the things
that are not here,
and I'm not feeling like
disturbing them.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.”
― Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

“I don't laugh very much," he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.”
― Robert Cormier, Tenderness

“That little Kennedy... he thought he was a god.”
― David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government

“Consider how money is only truly worth anything in the moment of transaction, the sinner said. So it is with power, as well. Power only has meaning when it is exerted on somebody.”
― Mary Hollow, No One Came For Me

“You can let go. I'm not going to stab you.'

'I find that oddly disappointing.'

'And I find that extremely disturbing.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Upon this Death Hour, the rabbit will dance.
There, canvassed in spoiling disease,
on streams and sharp-edged rocks,
he will move around and around with the Diablos.”
― When Death Comes For Us by D.L. Lewis

“Why are you here?'
...
'My husband,' the word poisonous and foul on my tongue, 'experimented on and then cobbled together dead body parts to create a monster. Once that was accomplished, he went on to murder his own brother and frame my best friend for the murder so that she would be hanged. Then he tried to use her body to practice his dark science on, in preparation for eventually changing me from living to dead, and back again to a new form of being that would never corrupt or die or be parted from him. I told him I was not interested in being his wife under those particular circumstances.'

The women's eyes were wide, and she scooted several inches away from me, pushing herself along the floor”
― Kiersten White, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

“Within seconds of being bound,
everyone felt deathly;
yet they could not die,
death was not visible;
eternal was their God,
the one who cannot be heard.

Their eyes were carved out,
Their teeth were sawed off,
Their legs were amputated,
Their intestines were ripped out,
and they were nailed to the beams by their wrist.

After their formal lives in the world ended, the damned sang songs of tears; they were emptied of the memories of their loved ones, and they were tortured by demons in an indescribable sense of suffering.

Since the divine creator is actually dead, he lures them into believing in something that does not exist by making them believe that he is real and loving. In fact, he is the Devil himself.”
― The Devil by D.L. Lewis

“Let's imagine we're standing together on the launch pad at NASA's Cape Canaveral facility near Orlando, and staring up at the stars together. As I write this, the last constellation above the horizon is Centaurus. The centaur's front head is a bright star. In fact, it's three stars—a pair called Alpha Centauri A and B, and, dimmest of the trio, Proxima Centauri. Here, look through this telescope. See? You can tell them apart. But what we can't see is that there is, in fact, a planet circling the faint light of Proxima Centauri. Man, I wish we could see it. Because that planet, Proxima Centauri b, is the nearest known exoplanet to Earth.
[...]
If we were to board a spacecraft and ride it from the outer edge of our atmosphere all the way to Proxima Centauri b, you and I, who boarded the ship fit and trim, chosen as we were from billions of applicants, would die before the voyage reached even 1/100th of the intervening distance. [...] At a speed of 20,000 miles per hour—the speed of our top-performing modern rockets—4.2 light years translates to more than 130,000 years of space travel.
[...] So how will we ever get there? A generation ship. [...] the general notion is this: get enough human beings onto a ship, with adequate genetic diversity among us, that we and our fellow passengers cohabitate as a village, reproducing and raising families who go on to mourn you and me and raise new of their own, until, thousands of years after our ship leaves Earth's gravity, the distant descendants of the crew that left Earth finally break through the atmosphere of our new home.
[...] A generation ship is every sociological and psychological challenge of modern life squashed into a microcosmic tube of survival and amplified—generation after generation.
[...] The idea of a generation ship felt like a pointless fantasy when I first encountered it. But as I've spent the last few years speaking with technologists, academics, and policy makers about the hidden dangers of building systems that could reprogram our behavior now and for generations to come, I realized that the generation ship is real. We're on board it right now.
On this planet, our own generation ship, we were once passengers. But now, without any training, we're at the helm. We have built lives for ourselves on this planet that extend far beyond our natural place in this world. And now we are on the verge of reprogramming not only the planet, but one another, for efficiency and profit. We are turning systems loose on the decks of the ship that will fundamentally reshape the behavior of everyone on board, such that they will pass those behaviors on to their progeny, and they might not even realize what they've done. This pattern will repeat itself, and play out over generations in a behavioral and technological cycle.”
― Jacob Ward, The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back

“I find it disturbing that people from outside of the Hawaiian culture are blatantly disrespecting their beliefs.”
― Steven Magee

“It’s a heaviness of ache than paralyzes me with this infernus warning. Below my eyes, I’m awaiting my imminent gnashing of teeth. Forbidden waters, my being needs no cleansing. Dead azure sky, God is unable to be seen. Heaven’s plague, All I see is deaf devotion. The man of stone, Religion was conceived by the infirmity of humanity. It’s all an apparition that arises from the root of decayed light. Alone -- for we are indeed the seed of nothingness.”
― D.L. Lewis

“Everyone knows it’s not the hardest thing in the world to paint a woman as unstable. There are road maps. Centuries of examples of best practice by gentlemen such as myself who are willing to indulge their heinous tendencies”
― Gilly Macmillan (author)

“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane: it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring chilling.”
― Roger Scruton, Beauty

“Nothing lives forever. Anything can be killed if you try hard enough.'

Overly proud of myself, I stabbed another piece of meat. 'I suppose.'

'But no matter how hard you try with that knife you just swiped,' he said, and my eyes widened, 'you will not be able t kill Cas with it.'

My head swung in his direction. 'I'm not planning to kill him with it.'

'I would hope not.' He looked at me from the corner of his eye. 'It would probably only further endear you to him.'

I gave a small shake of my head. 'I'm going to ignore that incredibly disturbing possibility.'

'Ignoring something doesn't make it less true, Penellaphe.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“All those dumb spooky movies like Friday the 13th, they all start in a house or a forest, or an abandoned cabin, or whatever, so you end up thinking you have to be scared of them. But you don’t. Not really. That whispering voice is never in the woods.

- S. E. Tolsen, Bunny”
― S. E. Tolsen

“All those dumb spooky movies like Friday the 13th, they all start in a house or a forest, or an abandoned cabin, or whatever, so you end up thinking you have to be scared of them. But you don’t. Not really. That whispering voice is never in the woods.”
― S. E. Tolsen

“Oscar: Come to me, if you dare.

Elijah: …

Gabriel: That’s disturbing.

Theodore: Highly disturbing.

Isobel: Thank you for offering, Killian, Theo, and Gabriel”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“[on Jeffrey Epstein]: I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
― Donald J. Trump

“We had finished the set when a lovely young woman wandered into our dressing room. She had bleached-blond hair and fire-engine-red lips and giant eyelashes that made her look like a reincarnated southern version of Marilyn Monroe. As I was prone to do at that time, I made my move before anyone else could even talk to her. I grabbed her hand and pulled her into the bathroom and asked her if she could keep me company while I took a shower.
Once I got into the shower, she went into an impeccable rendition of Marilyn singing "Happy Birthday" to JFK. I got out of that shower ready to go. She immediately threw off her clothes and we made love on the floor. I had known the girl for five minutes, but I was certain of my affection for her. We spent the night together, and I found out more about her, including the fact that she went to Catholic school. (She would be the inspiration for a later song, "Catholic School Girls Rule.")
The next day we drove to Baton Rouge, and of course, she came with us. After we got offstage, she came up to me and said, "I have something to tell you. My father's the chief of police and the entire state of Louisiana is looking for me because I've gone missing. Oh, and besides that, I'm only fourteen."
I wasn't incredibly scared, because in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn't going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time, and she gave me an interesting compliment that I never forgot. She said, "When you make love to me, it's like you're a professional." I told her that she should give herself a little time and she'd realize that it was because she didn't have much to compare it to. And I put her on a bus and sent her back to New Orleans.”
― Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue