Quotes About Strangeness

Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness.

Odd times to be a child in. An odd country, an odd life which he had no desire to make sense of. To endure, full stop, that was all he wanted.

weirdo n. (pl. weirdos) INFORMAL a person whose dress or behaviour seems strange or eccentric.

Admit I find everything strange and foreign. She finds a metaphor for her condition without defining it. It is my concern for happiness that cause me the most anguish. She now used him to perform her own tragedy for herself.

Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is.

Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn't, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

A suspicion that lightness is not deeply serious (but instead whimsical) pervades aesthetic discourse. But what if lightness is a philosophical choice to temper reality with strangeness, to temper the intellect with emotion, and to temper emotion with humor.

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever. The living are not what they were, the dead die again and again, and at last for good.

Know thyself." Sure, of course, you must. But afterwards, the project is to make yourself a stranger to yourself once more.

He was just a boy wearing pajamas, one slipper, and an old blue dressing gown under a stranger's jacket, and he did not belong anywhere but in his own bedroom.

When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar. The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

the fabric of his shirt was woven of some Martian stuff; even his very skin was of another weave.

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

Pero si tu tristeza y la mía se unen, tal vez logremos una extraña felicidad.

L'odio ha una sua concrezione strana, quando è definito e formulabile era già nato in noi, preesisteva in silenzio acquattato in una piega dell'animo

LEGGE DI HALDANE L'universo non è soltanto più bizzarro di quanto ci immaginiamo: è più bizzarro di quanto ci possiamo immaginare.

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.

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