Strangeness Quotes

101 Strangeness quotes by 88 unique authors

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
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 naiveté, 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
…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

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