Quotes About Strangeness

so often with Michelangelo, the strangeness is inseparable from the power of the work.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.

On account of its originality, excellence in every field strikes us as so new and so strange, that to recognize it at first glance will require not only understanding, but also education in the same discipline. As a rule, excellence achieves late recognition, all the later as the discipline is loftier, and those who truly enlighten humankind share the fate of the fixed stars, the light from which requires many years before it descends to the horizon.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

Beyond the reach of human range A drop of hell, a touch of strange . . .

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

I've been sleepwalking again, my dear. / The plants are moving under the rug.

Mostly I was just plain freaked. Not mentally tottering, I think a human mind that's moderately well-adjusted can absorb a lot of strangeness before it actually totters, but freaked, yes.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

Te vas a sentir incómoda en tu nuevo mundo durante un tiempo. Siempre es extraño vernos fuera del lugar donde

It's a bit weird, constantly being compared to someone you've never met.

There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.

Life is truly weird...And it's not getting any less weird the farther I get from home.

When giant violent albino penguins are the least extraordinary issue of the day, then your day has slipped a gear.

I have a weird thing with giraffes, I don't like their neck

Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes.

People who look like human beings are not human beings. Strange people are amongst us. We must be careful. Our lives are changing. Our gods are silent. Our ancestors are silent. A great something is going to come from the sky and change the face of the earth.

You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness

Seeing him there, a man as alien to the place as I was, let me picture myself in that world. What had seemed unimaginably strange and remote from my experience suddenly became possible, and comprehensible, and, finally, fascinating.

It was different with him. It was as though he was naked to embarrass *me.* It was so strange how Khasar just stood there and laughed at my discomfort. So strange, and I was too afraid to do anything, even to look away. Then the last of the sunlight faded, and I realized why he'd taken off his clothes. It was so they wouldn't rip.