It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. — Walter Hagen Copy Share Image
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to… — T.A. Miles Copy Share Image
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“There was a pause, while I fought against this other, lesser kind of death that was creeping over me - this death… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older,… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
“Normal.... What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like. So what if the majority became what we see as… — Catherine Copy Share Image
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life. — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
