Strangeness Quotes
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I love that strangeness.
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.