John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
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Uneasy
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company."
Joan Didion
Author, Essayist
"California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy."
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"What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?"
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"What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)"
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"...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion."
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"We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live."
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