Quotes About Otherness

People"—Geralt turned his head—"like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. I had never been so absolutely the mysterious other. I had become a kind of phoenix, a fabulous beast; I was an outlandish jewel.

He grudgingly admitted what she had already guessed, that he disliked the presence of servants because, she thought, a constant human presence would remind him too bitterly of his otherness [...]

Nothing about him reminded me of humanity.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.

Beyond 'Contact,' I think there's something compelling about 'District 9.'

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

Conan mentally termed the creatures black men, for lack of a better term; instinctively he knew that these tall ebony beings were not men, as he understood the term. No

These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let

No wonder he'd never really finished becoming one of us. We just thought it was because he was half Japanese, and lived in a huge house on the other side of town with a dad who was never home and who none of our parents had ever met. And possibly because he was an arrogant moody stuck-on-himself creepazoid And here he wasn't even a real gizmohead. He was just a grind. And a werewolf.

I remembered what it was like to walk a gauntlet of strangers who stare—their eyes angry, confused, intrigued. Woman or man: they are outraged that I confuse them. The punishment will follow. The only recognition I can find in their eyes is that I am "other." I am different. I will always be different. I will never be able to nestle my skin against the comfort of sameness.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. But what if these others belong to a different species and inhabit a radically alien universe? For example, how can the sane get to know what it actually feels like to be mad?

Jer u obi?nom, svagdašnjem svijetu ljudskih odnopsa bio je neobi?no nalik na stranca. Nelagodno se osje?ao me?u ljudima i bilo mu je teško ili ?ak nemogu?e zapodjenuti razgovor bilo s kime osim s onim koji je govorio njemu vlastitim, intelektualnim jezikom ideja. U emocionalnom je pogledu bio stranac.

Shrovetides, May Days, Carnivals - these permitted a direct experience of the animal otherness underlying personal and social identity.

Here, in spite of the peculiar hideousness of the architecture, there were renewals of transcendental otherness, hints of the morning's heaven.

But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of identities, all of them ultimately arbitrary and unrelated to your intentions, none of them a matter of your choice. The moment you other someone, you other yourself. When I idiotically pointed at Almir's non-existent difference, I expelled myself from my raja.

And thus woman has been definitely established as the Other. Western mythology itself was a patriarchal construct; through its portrayal of woman as the ambivalent projection of man's fears and desires, not as her own independent self, mythology translates the message that woman must respect a 'natural order of things' or risk responsibility for human chaos and destruction.

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.