Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down. — Lana Del Rey
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy. — Paul Auster
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or… — Ann Radcliffe
As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than… — Wes Nisker
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps… — Martha Graham
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield… — Virginia Woolf
Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. — Virginia Woolf
To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and… — David Whyte
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them… — Thomas Merton
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time… — Thomas Paine
The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human… — Ted Hughes
I'll join you, sir. You'll need help finding your way about the estate."His lips tightened into a disapproving line. "Begging your pardon, Lady Rosalind, but… — Sabrina Jeffries
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. — Guy Murchie
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. — William Lyon Phelps
There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is. — Tori Amos
They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put… — Joyce Grenfell
We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to have what is… — Dorothy Day
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of… — Alan Watts
Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot… — Henri Nouwen
I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing… — Li-Young Lee
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out… — E. M. Forster
I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course,… — Chad Harbach
He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a… — David Haye

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