Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. — Donald Barthelme
Weird is good, strange is bad. — Cinda Williams Chima
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's… — Charles Bukowski
purple does something strange to me — Charles Bukowski
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that… — Dante Alighieri
it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace… — Charles Bukowski
You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this… — William Goldman
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life… — Frank Herbert
Listen,” F. Jasmine said. “What I’ve been trying to say is this. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are… — Carson McCullers
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They… — Mark Twain
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless… — W. Somerset Maugham
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy
For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect… — Martin Amis
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,… — Mark Twain
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A… — Harper Lee
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder. — Blaise Pascal
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old. — Mario Puzo
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out… — Daniel Handler
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most… — Rainer Maria Rilke
truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by… — Elizabeth McCracken
You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when… — Dr. Seuss
All through my life I've had this strange unaccountable feeling that something was going on in the world, something big, even sinister, and no one… — Douglas Adams
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did… — Virginia Woolf
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and… — Barbara Kingsolver

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