Otherness Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all… — Anna Quindlen
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can… — Karen Armstrong
Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated… — Pope Benedict XVI
I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension. — Brian Froud
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and… — Fernando Pessoa
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay… — Anna Quindlen
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,… — William Kittredge
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that… — David Bentley Hart
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian... — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. — David Abram
We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God.… — Kent Nerburn
One of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes… — Mark Epstein
They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves… — Liane Moriarty
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale,… — Andy Warhol
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary.… — William Cronon
Fear is so fundamental to the human condition that all the great spiritual traditions originate in an effort to overcome its effects on our lives.… — Parker J. Palmer
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the… — Lynne Truss
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal. — Meshell Ndegeocello
You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life. — Amos Lee
And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun… — Donna Tartt

Who Wrote These Otherness Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 42 Otherness Quotes, led by these top contributors: