“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” — Edgar Allan Poe 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
“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. — Lynn Barber Copy Share Image
“In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever… — Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — Edward McKendree Bounds 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
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots… — Molly Gloss Copy Share Image
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Copy Share Image
“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she… — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The strangeness of the situation... the baleful goose, Matthew Swift waterlogged and dressed in his shirtsleeves... caused an irrepressible giggle to rise… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“And so when you have lost everything, no more roads, no direction, no fixed signs, no ground, no thoughts able to resist… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Again, was it not this same presentiment of death that made it seem so strange to me now that I should never… — Shohei Ooka Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. — David Allee Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack… — Alex North 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
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes… — Siri Hustvedt 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
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
