Quotes About Unfamiliarity

Lo que llamamos locura es la descostumbre del pensamiento de los otros.

they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn't the word, an environment whose language they refused to recognize, an environment that existed on some parallel plane where they couldn't make their presence felt

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.

True solitude is to be found in a place that lives a life of its own, but which for you holds no familiar footprint, speaks in no known voice, and where accordingly the stranger is yourself.

Io volevo esser solo in un modo affatto insolito, nuovo. Tutt'al contrario di quel che pensate voi: cioè senza me e appunto con un estraneo attorno.

Our ignorance of the unfamiliar is what fuels our fear.

There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you're not in Kansas anymore. By

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

There is nothing I love more than traveling to a place where I know nobody, and where everything will be a surprise, and then writing about it. It's like having a new lover—even the parts you aren't crazy about have the crackling fascination of the unfamiliar.

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.

Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.

I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.

Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.

it was all so new to her, he guessed.

passerby would never guess the Garretts even knew each other. They looked so scattered, and so lonesome.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

The brown book I carry says there is nothing stranger than to explore a city wholly different from all those one knows, since to do so is to explore a second and unsuspected self. I have found a thing stranger: to explore such a city only after one has lived in it for some time without learning anything of it.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.