Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of… — Saint John Chrysostom
Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had… — Carl Sagan
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. — W. Somerset Maugham
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. — Claes Oldenburg
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die. — Hunter S. Thompson
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees… — Walter de La Mare
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… — Oscar Wilde
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain… — George Eliot
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history… — Max Beerbohm
You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that… — Anthony de Mello
I must have ended up on the wrong planet. Everything here is so strange. — SigbjÃ¸rn Obstfelder
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? — Henry Travers
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be… — George Washington
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of… — Dante Alighieri
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of… — Guy Murchie
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the… — Jean Batten

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