When Your Spirit Feels Uneasy Quotes

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. ~ Paul Johnson

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. ~ Carrie Brownstein

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ~ William Shakespeare

It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels. ~ Frederick Lenz

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. ~ Andrew Jackson

I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better. ~ Lenny Kravitz

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' ~ Chester Bennington

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving. ~ Kim Basinger

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel. ~ Matana Roberts

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. ~ Jonathan Swift

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust. ~ George Bellows

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos. ~ George Eliot

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like five minutes. If you're doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, five minutes feels like an hour. ~ Ken Robinson

It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create. ~ Marcel Proust

A mind that cannot find peace even in the infinite beauty of nature is a truly uneasy mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force. ~ Bayard Taylor

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them. ~ Aristotle.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not. ~ Mindy Kaling

What the sense feels, what the spirit perceives, is never an end in itself. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are as vain as that. ~ Nietszche

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. ~ Henri Poincare

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. ~ Germaine Greer

It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer. ~ William Shakespeare

I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences ... ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. ~ Eleanor Antin

To me, falling in love is the first step in losing my confidence. If I'm in love with somebody, I think that obviously he must have other people in his life. Everything that makes me balanced and happy is suddenly in the hands of someone else. It's an extremely uneasy feeling. ~ Joan Juliet Buck

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us. ~ Samuel Johnson

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. ~ Noel Coward

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended. ~ Harold Town

I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman. ~ Jean Van De Velde

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ~ Samuel Johnson

We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop. ~ Seth Shostak

I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us. ~ Tim O'Brien

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. ~ Jonathan Swift

Sometimes when I see someone who's a spirit of justice ... I feel like I want to destroy them! ~ Gen Urobuchi

Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship. ~ Simon Cameron

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on. ~ Boris Spassky

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ~ Joan Didion

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit. ~ Sinead O'Connor

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince. ~ Mark Haddon

Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision
where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath.
Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously. ~ Emily Giffin

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

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel. ~ Sinead O'Connor

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought. ~ Adam Gopnik

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love. ~ George Eliot

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence. ~ Brand Blanshard

The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current. ~ Charles Dickens

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing. ~ Bai Ling

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces. ~ Deepak Chopra

Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish. ~ Deepak Chopra

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight. ~ Diane Ackerman

And if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all. ~ Jaclyn Moriarty

Everything is illusion, except for the Divine Love of God that is all-pervading which you can feel through your Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that which is acquired through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits. ~ Wayne Dyer

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime ~ Immortal Technique

Dear Waves,
You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores!
Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much? ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things. ~ John Frusciante

To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see only beauty. And I like beautiful things. I like the aesthetically harmonious. But I am much more attracted to something that is off-kilter. It is a truer reflection of not only nature, but the human spirit - the state of the world. I just think everything feels a little off. ~ Carrie Brownstein

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life ~ Marilyn Manson

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others. ~ Amy Grant

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff. ~ Jerry Lewis

My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice. ~ Valerie Simpson

I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit. ~ Erwin McManus

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him. ~ T. B. Joshua

Just reviewing this list, these to-dos and dones, her pace quickens; she feels lighter, she feels smarter, she feels in control, she feels alive. ~ Rumaan Alam

Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. ~ Aldous Huxley

Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. ~ Bruce Lee

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ~ Alex Chilton

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit ~ Oswald Chambers

The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends our deadness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Wisdom delivers us from ignorance in this holy art ofprayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Fire delivers us from coldness in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Might comes to our aid in our weakness as we pray. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit ~ Pope Francis

It is good to feel lost… because it proves you have a navigational sense of where "Home" is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists. And maybe your current location isn't that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost-ness just brought you closer to it. ~ Erika Harris

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ~ George Eliot

The Master encouraged us to gain friends, that is, to expand our circle of friends through which we can feel more intensive protection in a spirit of cooperation and through intervening values. ~ Chico Xavier

With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for. ~ Sylvester Stallone

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions. ~ Calvin Coolidge

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent. ~ Joan Didion

The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are. ~ Pope John Paul II

What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life. ~ Tony Robbins

I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind. ~ Cate Marvin

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. ~ Jack Kerouac

It's not a struggle to be on a diet. You feel lighter, and your spirit is lighter, too. But I love chocolate, and I allow myself to have chocolate. That doesn't go against a diet for me. ~ Juliette Binoche

What is most important is your Spirit. Why identify with anything else but your own spirit? You cannot get money out of it. No. The joy of Spirit is the reward of Spirit. ~ Nirmala Srivastava

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it. ~ Garth Stein

A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus. ~ Sam Smith

The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit. ~ Dan Kimball

We need music to restore the human spirit ~ Leonard Slatkin

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance. ~ Clark Kerr

It's hard to describe, but there are times when ... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us! ~ Tony Snow

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. ~ Dorothea Lange

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit? ~ Gabrielle

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity? ~ Charlotte Bronte