Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in… — William Shakespeare
The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know… — Thomas Wolfe
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. — Cormac McCarthy
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.… — Leif Enger
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched… — Graham Greene
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,”… — Susanna Clarke
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck
Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box… — John Steinbeck
That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to… — Adrienne Rich
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. — Freya Stark
But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and… — Libba Bray
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I… — Jack Kerouac
What a long strange trip it's been. — Jerry Garcia
You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing… — Anton Chekhov
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange… — Eugene H. Peterson
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me… — Jamie Lee Curtis
The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun... — Aeschylus
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking.… — Ken Kesey
It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to… — Susanna Clarke
Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch. — Susanna Clarke
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the… — Jostein Gaarder

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