Strangeness Quotes

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

— Rene Char

People are strange . . .

— Jim Morrison

I'm relaxing into the strangeness of life.

— Taylor Russell

There is no beauty without some strangeness

— Edgar Allan Poe

“In my family strange is relative.”

— Kate Rockland

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

— Robert Kelly

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”

— Sophocles

“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”

— Sarah Perry

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

— Guy Gavriel Kay

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

— Ciaran Hinds

“Will you tolerate the strangeness inside of me, the quirks of my soul?”

— Tyler Knott Gregson

“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…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

— Robbie Williams

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

“And none can ever deny the strangeness of the heart. As it defies all logic and laws. Feels light when it's occupied,…

— Drishti Bablani

“But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don’t appear at…

— Meg Wolitzer

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to…

— Rod McKuen

“It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are…

— Alberto Caeiro

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

“Perhaps we only leave So we may once again arrive, To get a bird's eye view Of what it means to be…

— Erin Hanson

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a…

— Robert Mankoff

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration…

— Barbara Jordan

“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase…

— Bertrand Russell

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our…

— Jon Ronson

I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the…

— Florence Welch

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to…

— Dorothy Richardson

“The sensation was part of the general strangeness that made him feel like a man waking from a long sleep to find…

— Edith Wharton

“But gradually through the tumultuous talk of the days and the nightlong wonderings when I sat groping for hope through the darkness,…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

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

— Richard Dawkins

“My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright…

— Christopher Hopper

“Louis stared at her, nonplussed. He more than half suspected that one of the things which had kept their marriage together when…

— Stephen King

When I was eleven I stopped dreaming the dreams that didn't come true, I stopped talking to people who didn't listen, I…

— Rosanne Cash

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most…

— john gardner

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

— Graham Greene

“before I die I want to see The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes”

— Charlotte Mew

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer