Quotes About Otherness

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

C'è qualcosa di assoluto e di imprendibile in certi esseri, sembra una lontananza dal mondo, dai vivi, ma sembra anche il segno di chi subisce un potere che non conosciamo.

C'était l'époque où une de ces phrases saisonnières dont la France était friande traînait sur toutes les lèvres : "L'enfer, c'est les autres." Pour moi, au contraire, l'enfer, je le vérifiais à mes dépens, c'est d'être toujours autre soi-même, au point d'être de nulle part.

I'm a monster too. And they probably can't help it either.

There was another kind of beauty, however, and everyone on the Myriad knew it. A twisted beauty that turned your stomach even while it turned your head. Frecht was the old word, a harsh word ragged with superstitious awe. It was an ugliness and otherness that could only be holy, a breach of the rules that echoed those that no rules coul bind.

Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued.

Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness

People are strange when you're a stranger.

But every perceived difference, no matter how slight, can become an argument for Otherness- money, education, skin color, religion, political party, hairstyle, anything. Enemies are enlivening. Evil-doers, jihadists, barbarians. Hatred is exciting and contagious and conveniently eliminates all ambiguity. You just spew your own garbage onto someone else.

You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!

Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.

We were always the ultimate Other—communists in the view of the capitalists and capitalists in communist eyes, nationalists for the cosmopolitans and, for jingoists, the International Jew.

Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in his garden. But if they're strangers to us, what are we to them? (26)

People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.

Those are the love killers. They love you and then they kill you. They're from another planet. Supposedly.

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

Mother of otherness, Eat me. --from Poem for a Birthday - Who, written 1960

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different. The disease hung on them like dried dung.

It is within the commercial realm of advertising that the drama of Otherness finds expression. Encounters with Otherness are clearly marked as more exciting, more intense, and more threatening. The lure is the combination of pleasure and danger.

Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves?

Quieres saber de verdad cómo se siente un X-Man?d Entonces conviértete en un muchacho de color, inteligente y estudioso, en un ghetto contemporáneo de Estados Unidos. ¡Mamma mía! Es como si tuvieras alas de murciélago o un par de tentáculos creciéndote en el pecho.