Strangeness Quotes

101 quotes by 88 authors

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel,… — Meghan O'Rourke
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or… — Walter Pater
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you… — Paul Gauguin
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… — C.S. Lewis
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness… — Unknown Author
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The… — David Remnick
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing. — Jason Schwartzman
I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the… — Florence Welch
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. — Graham Greene
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same. — Gregory Maguire
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance… — Madeleine L'Engle
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged… — Yann Martel
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death… — Michel de Montaigne
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love… — W. Somerset Maugham
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father,… — P.D. James
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson

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