Strangeness Quotes

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

It’s stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there’s nothing to understand.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can’t draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It’s not a poison.

~ Allyse Near

He held her hand and shook his head. They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?

~ Greg Bear

Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.

~ Yuhta Nishio

Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now?Would our normal, become our new wierd?

~ Catherine Of Genoa

There are others who have strange eyes?' I asked, perking up.Kester suddenly wished he hadn't spoken. 'Well, not as distinctive as you. No one actually has purple ones. Shades of green and blue are sometimes too bright than normal, but I don't recall anyone having eyes like y

~ Deepika Kumaaraguru

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one—The strangest stranger—in any field or room.He was weird will be carved into my tomb.

~ Sherman Alexie

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

~ Charles Baudelaire

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

~ Roman Payne

Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.

~ Richard White

I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

~ J.a. Baker

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

~ David Sedaris

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.

~ T.a. Miles

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

~ Sigbjørn Obstfelder

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

~ Alain De Botton

It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas.

~ Christopher Fowler

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

~ Jim Morrison

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

~ Emily Brontë

If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

~ Sarah-Kate Lynch

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.

~ Christopher Hopper

People are strange . . .

~ Jim Morrison

In my family strange is relative.

~ Kate Rockland

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves

~ Rita Dove

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

~ Francis Bacon