Disturb
To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.
To turn from a regular or designed course.
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Disturb Quotations
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
Catherine Booth
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
Jean Rostand
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
Max Beckmann
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
John Grierson
Disturb Translations
disturb in Danish is hindre, forstyrre
disturb in Dutch is hinderen, storen, belemmeren
disturb in Finnish is vaivata
disturb in Italian is frastornare
disturb in Latin is concutio, commoveo, differo
disturb in Norwegian is forstyrre
disturb in Portuguese is perturbe
disturb in Spanish is perturbar, estorbar
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