Top 105 Disturbing Quotes

We don’t have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It’s very disturbing to me that we’ve sort of been pushed to the corners.
Carlisle Floyd
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Lincoln Davis has supported Nancy Pelosi’s anti-business, big government policies a disturbing 83% of the time.
Scott DesJarlais
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
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I’ve seen, what I know – they’re not all screaming faceless mullahs. It’s disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
Mira Nair
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
Tamzin Merchant
I’m just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren’t going to be alive forever – that bothered me.
David Cronenberg
I’m uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?
Jeremy Sisto
The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that’s the standard to which I write, because it was what I’ve experienced over my time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
'The Strange Thing About the Johnsons' is so disturbing

‘The Strange Thing About the Johnsons’ is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don’t really see, ever.
Milly Shapiro
There’s a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it’s shameful. That’s really disturbing to me.
Richard Belzer
‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.
Michael Moore
There’s not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.
Andy Milonakis
I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.
Maurizio Cattelan
On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.
Marc Racicot
I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist.
Priyamvada Natarajan
The culture of celebrity has become insane. It’s all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.
Sophia Myles
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
Martha Beck
The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.
Ben Domenech
When you are in positions of privileged access… you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.
Edward Snowden
Trump has not only ordered a disturbing military buildup in the Persian Gulf, he’s determined to punish any country that has continued to do business with Iran since he withdrew from the nuclear treaty the United States instigated and signed in 2015.
Neil Macdonald
Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn’t weird and disturbing?
Rachel Sklar
A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she’s a little disturbing like a man.
Sonia Rykiel
Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it’s a bit like, ‘Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?’
Michaela Coel
The importance of recalls is to show that contaminated meat is getting out the door. And when you look at these recalls, in many ways the most disturbing thing about these recalls is how little of the meat actually winds up back at the plant.
Eric Schlosser
It is really disturbing to see that every Tom, Dick and Harry starts singing compositions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan as there is no one to claim it.
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
Daisy Berkowitz
The language you are about to hear… is disturbing.
Dave Chappelle
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
Amiri Baraka
I think I present a different side of a male character: a side that is not John Wayne-like, a side that is, in fact, destructible. To some people, that is refreshing, and to other people, especially if they don’t know me, it may be disturbing.
Albert Brooks
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back – to be ‘taught’ – is disturbing.
Rachel Cusk
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
I’ve got everything against likable characters. Likable characters are usually completely forgettable, and we don’t really care. I think we love villains… precisely because they show us these disturbing complexities that I don’t think nice characters do.
Lawrence Osborne
There are so many people who just want a flashy object in front of their eyes and don’t want to think at all; I find that disturbing.
Andy Kindler
Nothingness is not nothing at all, so it is physical, but not in the sense of constant presence. Nothingness is disturbing. It is there in a mind-independent sense; it is part of what is given.
Timothy Morton
In 1817, Czar Alexander I personally founded the Society of Israelite Christians but had less luck defeating Judaism than he’d had defeating Napoleon; gentile serfs and merchants in areas bordering the Pale even showed disturbing new signs of ‘Judaizing.’
Tom Reiss
The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.
Russ Feingold
I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.
Chad Lindberg
If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you’re the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close – which you wouldn’t be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
Alex Karpovsky
Whatever your political leanings, it is disturbing that federal authorities were spying on emails and other private communications between President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani during Trump’s first impeachment.
Miranda Devine
When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it’s disturbing.
Kaitlan Collins
FDR’s job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.
Amity Shlaes
I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.
Tammy Baldwin
Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But the fact remains that there is a propaganda campaign being waged against Russia. And this is disturbing.
Gennady Timchenko
I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
If you are bowling well and not getting wickets, it’s not a big issue. Sometimes I am economical, but not getting enough wickets. But if I am not bowling well and not getting wickets, then it’s a disturbing thing.
Yuzvendra Chahal
I’m thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It’s appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes ‘Catching Fire’ while simultaneously promoting the Capitol’s punitive forms of entertainment.
Suzanne Collins
The kidnapped person is so tantalizingly close, kept alive by a devastating hope. Kidnapping or hostage-taking is perhaps the most disturbing form of terror because it turns this hope into a liability that can paralyze.
Uzodinma Iweala
I want Barack Obama for president. I love Obama. I call Palin the helicopter huntress from hell! I want my children to have a wonderful future, and it’s disturbing when I look around. Americans aren’t very well-liked. A likable president would be a great start.
Pamela Anderson
I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.
Henry A. Wise
I don’t care what color you are, what size you are, where you’re from. It is disturbing that there’s an idea that only tall, thin, willowy, size 0 women are attractive – even for the tall, thin, willowy, size 0 woman! We all should get to feel like there’s something powerful and beautiful about who we are.
Shonda Rhimes
A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it’s not weird. But if a man does it, it’s very disturbing. The way I’d describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn’t let me in any of the interesting rooms.
Rob Schneider