Quotes About Strangeness

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

The beauty and strangeness of the world may fill the eyes with its cordial refreshment. Equally it may offer the heart a dish of terror. On one side is radiance; on another is the abyss.

If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being. should be wretched.

En mi alegría arrime una mano a las llamas, pero tuve que retirarla rápidamente con un grito de dolor ¡Que extraño me resulto que la misma causa produjera efectos tan opuestos!

Oh ! étrangeté des rêves éveillés où l'esprit s'envole dans un monde irréel et possible ! Rien n'y étonne ; rien n'y choque ; et la fantaisie débridée ne distingue plus le comique et le lúgubre.

no sentiste nunca la impresión de que de niño te habían prometido algo, y luego te miras y piensas: Entonces no sabía que me sucedería todo eso, y te das cuenta de que todo es extraño, y ridículo, y un poco triste a la vez?»

he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.

I wrote on the board one of my favorite lines from the German thinker Theodor Adorno: "The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in one's own home." I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable.

It was as if, because of the very strangeness of my heritage and the worlds I straddled, I was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast, confined to a fragile habitat, unsure of where I belonged. And I sensed, without fully understanding why or how, that unless I could stitch my life together and situate myself along some firm axis, I might end up in some basic way living my life alone.

A city is the weirdest, loneliest thing.

rubbing his chin, "as Nicolas Cage put it in Con Air, 'On any other day, that might seem strange.

Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

I'm saying it's strange when you meet someone. That it's a new planet.

I was too weird, even for the weirdos.

We need to be virtually bludgeoned into detachment from our daily lives, our habits and mental laziness, which conceal from us the strangeness of the world. Without a fresh virginity of mind, without a new and healthy awareness of existential reality, there can be no theatre and no art either; the real must be in a way dislocated, before it can be re-integrated.

I couldn't identify with anyone. At school, I was considered very strange. I didn't understand the relationships between people.

He stood there feeling the sweet poison spread in his veins, confused, growing dizzy with joy and strangeness. He had spread love, but never felt it; shot others, but never wounded himself.

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

It's just that that was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

Forms strangely robed, but at once noble and familiar, walked abroad, and under the horned waning moon men talked wisdom in a tongue which I understood, though it was unlike any language I had ever known.

the abnormal alway excites aversion, distrust, and fear

abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.