{"quotes":[{"text":"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”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["act-in-line","architecture","astounded","behavior","bulls-in-a-china-shop","clash-with","create","disruption","dissension","disturbing","emotional","emotional-outlaws","inner-construction","living-environment","one-heck-of-a-mess","proceed","shocking","standards"],"id":1816,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"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?').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["art","biased","breathing","come-to-life","concept","consent-to","dispel","disturbing","feel","forsaken","fragments","ignored","in-the-end","nasty","perceptions","philosophy","piece-of-art","raise-questions","recognize","reconcile","remember","sometimes","start","talk-to"],"id":24141,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman's hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death.","author":"Stephen Craig","tags":["blood","death","disturbing","horror","killer"],"id":27656,"author_id":"Stephen+Craig"},{"text":"Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["defeat","disturbance","disturbing","emotional","emotions","fail","failure","human","humans","injuries","injury","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","overestimate","overestimating","overestimation","philosophy","respect","respectable","respected","respectful","respecting","respecting-others","respecting-yourself","success","successful","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":72848,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"At least I rescued your poor hot dog.","author":"R.L. Stine","tags":["burn","coming-of-age","disturbing","fire","frightening","funny","ghost","ghoul","gives-me-the-willies","goosebumps","grief","hot-dog","humor","laugh","lonely","lord","madness","nostalgia","pyrokinesis","rescue","savior","scary","sleepaway-camp","spooky","summer-camp","teen","teenage","wiener","wiener-roast"],"id":79771,"author_id":"R.L.+Stine"},{"text":"We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["dark","disturbing","horror","scary"],"id":99914,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature,” Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. “I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren’t many of them left these days but they’re still very dangerous! They’re here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don’t understand the world of Representations.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["alberta","canada","cape-breton","chemicals","chernobyl","coal","death","disturbing","dying","earth","entity","environment","fear","green","grief","hazardous","hippie","imaginary","imagination","loss","love-canal","mother-earth","nature","nova-scotia","pollution","recycle","representation","scared","smog","steel","storm","suicide","sydney-tar-ponds","tar","tar-sands","toxic-waste"],"id":111589,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"I don't think I could ever see her closely,' the sentinel replied, 'however close she came.' His own voice was hushed and regretful, echoing with lost chances. 'She has a newness,' he said. 'Everything is for the first time. See how she moves, how she walks, how she turns her head -- all for the first time, the first time anyone has ever done these things. See how she draws her breath and lets it go again, as though no one else in the world knew that air was good. It is all for her. If I learned that she had been born this very morning, I would only be surprised that she was so old.' The second sentinel stared down from his tower at the three wanderers. The tall man saw him first, and next the dour woman. Their eyes reflected nothing but his armor, grim and cankered and empty. But then the girl in the ruined black cloak raised her head, and he stepped back from the parapet, putting out one tin glove against her glance. In a moment she passed into the shadow of the castle with her companions, and he lowered his hand. 'She may be mad,' he said calmly. 'No grown girl looks like that unless she is mad. That would be annoying, but far preferable to the remaining possibility.' 'Which is?' the younger man prompted after a silence.'Which is that she was indeed born this morning. I would rather that she were mad.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["disturbing","madness","supernatural"],"id":137680,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"},{"text":"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["digital","disturbing","dumb","environmental","future","human","intelligence","progress","scary","sheeple","smart","smartboard","smartcar","smartphone","smartphone-addiction","society","technology","weird"],"id":153372,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}