Quotes About Eccentricity

Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in the middle of the crowd a giant Swede wearing a blue jockstrap was blowing long blasts on a trumpet.

He often swore that if all the people who had worked for the paper in those years could appear at one time before the throne of The Almighty—if they all stood there and recited their histories and their quirks and their crimes and their deviations—there was no doubt in his mind that God himself would fall down in a swoon and tear his hair. Of course Lotterman exaggerated;

In a town full of bedrock crazies, nobody even notices an acid freak.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

mad drinkers and men of strange arts.

A natural street freak, just eating whatever came by.

Too weird to live, too rare to die.

Painters, writers, musicians are lonely people. So are statesmen and admirals and generals. But then, I added to be fair, so are criminals and lunatics. Let's just say, not to be too flattering, that true individuals are lonely. -- Vivienne Michel

Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

I can assure you I'm now always fully of my own bizarre and unique magnificence.

Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.

Without meaning to, I've become the neighborhood weirdo.

Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

All love stories are not same, perhaps a little madness makes it special.

Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything….but getting a wicker basket to fit them is a fiasco

The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.

En el colegio dicen que soy un poco raro [...] -Pues es una suerte. Empiece a preocuparse el día que le digan que es usted normal.

I left the lunatic sitting on his bed with his out-of-date newspaper and his up-to-date speeches.

I wish she was more like a normal girl, but I'd rather be with her and deal with her eccentricities than never see her again.

Stop this, she thought. Stop this pitiful absurd train of thought! Some people become deadheads. Some people become glue freaks. Jon Pear is a tear collector. It's a little weird, but Madrigal loved him, so he's lovable.