Strangeness Quotes

101 quotes by 90 authors

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was… — Elisabeth Eaves
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. — Lynn Barber
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man .… — Robert Louis Stevenson
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is… — Antoine Wilson
Each family functions in their own way, by rules reinvented daily. The strangeness of each of us is somehow accommodated so that there can be… — Niall Williams
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness. — Sara Genn
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness. — Miguel Syjuco
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. — Charles Baudelaire
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. — Henry David Thoreau
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, Iâ€™m terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and… — Henri Nouwen
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness. — Anthony Doerr
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio de Chirico
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river… — Gautama Buddha
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will… — Alexander Smith
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses… — Richard Le Gallienne
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us. — Charles Baudelaire

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