Eerie Quotes

• It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Science, Order, Chaos

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• One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Halloween

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Poems by Emily Dickinson”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

  Nicole Kidman

  Butterfly, Snakes, Spiders

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 26, 2012

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• I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Nature, Believe

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• Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.

  Homer

  Boys, Mess

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• I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself - -it's eerie.

  Christy Turlington

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

  Sharon Gless

  Air, Black, Three

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• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  A. N. Wilson

  Kings, Queens, Perspective

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• The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.

  Karen Chance

  Silence, Quiet, Scream

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland.

  Walt Disney

  Flower, Adventure, Eye

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• That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. "Now old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed."

  Jimmy Page

  Home, Writing, Eye

  "The Durable Led Zeppelin". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 1975.

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• It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Machines, Research, Mri

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• The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable.

  A.M. Homes

  World, Unforgettable

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• It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

  Robert Fisk

  Soldier, Als, Bashar Al Assad

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• A girl conceived in China has to run an eerie kind of gauntlet if she is to survive. many parents will use the ultrasound technique. and, if it reveals. a girl, they'll abort her. If it reveals the baby is a boy, they'll celebrate.

  Steven W. Mosher

  Girl, Running, Baby

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• It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted image of his face, reflected on the inside cylindrical surface of the bore while inside an MRI (magnetic-resonance-imaging) machine-a device made possible by his early physical researches on nuclear magnetic resonance (1938).

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Science, Nuclear, Machines

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• You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

  William Anders

  Baseball, Glowing, Flames

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• It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

  Neil Armstrong

  Apollo, Strange, Difficult

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
  Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
  With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,
  And called himself the monarch of the world;
  Then, going in the tire-room afterward,
  Because the play was done, to shift himself,
  Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,
  The moment he had shut the closet door,
  By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope
  At unawares, ask what his baubles mean,
  And whose part he presumed to play just now.
  Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!

  Robert Browning

  Death, Being Yourself, Mean

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.

  Dodie Smith

  Ocean, Fog, Sea

  "Fictional character: Roderick Fitzgerald". "The Uninvited", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

  Bill Mollison

  People, House

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• I'm certain I don't know what permaculture is. That's what I like about it - it's not dogmatic. But you've got to say it's about the only organized system of design that ever was. And that makes it extremely eerie.

  Bill Mollison

  Design, Permaculture, Certain

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.

  Tom Robbins

  Buddhist, Real, Typewriters

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that... use that to navigate.

  DJ Spooky

  Wall, Eye, Voice

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.

  DJ Spooky

  Real, Ocean, Mean

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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