Quotes About Unfamiliarity

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of a greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no one knows us, and Lord! how uncomfortable we become!

I am a stranger at a cocktail party.

I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.

How could you forget something you never learned or had?!

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things

Cuando a uno lo sacan de sus hábitos es como el pescado fuera del agua –dijo el doctor Restelli, mirando su vaso–. Estoy muy acostumbrado al mate dulce de las cuatro, sabe.

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

I'm not used to doing press conferences, and I don't like giving interviews.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don't know him.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

não posso mais odiá-los, porque nada me une a eles; não temos nada em comum

I love going into a dive where they have no idea who I am or haven't heard my music and try to win them over.

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things -Bram Stoker, Dracula

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

what you don't know, you don't miss

getting used to being up here consisted in getting used to not getting used

In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.

Imaginas que yo persigo lo extraño por ignorancia de lo bello, pero no es así, ocurre que porque tu ignoras lo bello, yo busco lo extraño.