Strangeness Quotes

101 quotes by 88 authors

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it… — Regina Doman
...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness. — Jean Rhys
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the… — Douglas Coupland
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we… — Siri Hustvedt
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares… — Yann Martel
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. — Robert M. Pirsig
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very… — Albert Camus
â€¦he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the… — John Updike
What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your fingers turn the strangeness of these… — Markus Zusak
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and… — H P Lovecraft
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. — Markus Zusak
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them. — Julia Quinn
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our… — Jon Ronson
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. — Charles Baudelaire
The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all… — Edward Abbey
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in… — Knut Hamsun

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