Unheimlich Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to call you. See you. You have no idea how bad I wanted to — Liz Reinhardt

In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are yet very different: on the one hand it means what is familiar and agreeable, and on the other, what is concealed and kept out of sight. Unheimlich is customarily used, we are told, as the contrary only of the first signification of heimlich, and not of the second. [...] On the other hand, we notice that Schelling says something which throws quite a new light on the concept of the Unheimlich, for which we were certainly not prepared. According to him, everything is unheimlich that ought to have remained secret and hidden but has come to light. — Sigmund Freud

Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements gang up behind or beneath the ego's awareness and immerse it in a waking dream of something Other, an alien world-order similar to ancient irrationalist cultures (in transition from primitivism to civilized mythos-culture). — Kenny Smith

I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion. — Martin Naughton

People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two. — Michael Cunningham

Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing. — Sydney Brenner

You want your agony to have a certain sophistication, no? You don't want people to think you're some simpleton who just suddenly realized life is hard, do you? Well, then, first you need to build a solid foundation, and that is what the following chapters are all about: bringing out the little turtlenecked French nihilist in you as a child. You need to cultivate your neuroses. Even if you only have one mental breakdown later in life, this early work will make it easier for you to "lose it" with gusto when the time is right. — Jacqueline Novak

Real. Does that make me imaginary? — Stephenie Meyer

In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately. — Ernst Jentsch

What bosom beast not in his country's cause? — Alexander Pope

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience. — Clement Of Alexandria

We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. — Chogyam Trungpa

There's a reason you never see anyone's house with a Beware of Cat sign. Because they're not even worth mentioning. — Chelsea Handler

He who walks with the wise goes farther than he who runs with fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich". — DJ Spooky