and you and I left with the same old question the sheer…

“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,…

— Richard Dawkins

“Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is a museum…

— Kirsty Eagar

It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

— Walter Hagen

“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident…

— Elizabeth Harrower

“The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of extreme ambition,…

— Tyler Cowen

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into…

— Anonymous

“...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd,…

— John Crowley

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the…

— Richard Le Gallienne

“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;…

— T.A. Miles

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

— Charles Baudelaire

“There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly…

— James Wood

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

— Francis Bacon

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite…

— Walter Pater

“There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death called strangeness,…

— Cornell Woolrich