Quotes About Strangeness

Desde que el mundo es mundo, vivir y morir vienen siendo la cara y la cruz de una misma moneda echada al aire, pero si sale cara es todavía más absurdo. Para mí, si quieren que les diga la verdad, lo raro es vivir.

This is the age of oddities let loose.

It's strange,' she said, 'very strange. I have a theory, you know, that some beautiful things fall in love with themselves, as Narcissus did. When they do that, they need no help in order to live; they become so absorbed in their own beauty that they live for that alone, feeding on themselves, as it were. Thus, the more beautiful they become, the stronger they become; they live in a circle.

The mind of man works with strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented by the timepiece of the mind by one second.

A veces, fingir ser normal era el mejor antídoto contra las cosas raras. El dicho «finge hasta que lo logres» era algo más que simple verborrea psicológica.

You're some freaky shit, my brother. You really are.

The clarinet in its most perfect form is a strange beast--if it is imperfect, it is also completely untamable.

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.

All of life is a foreign country.

He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.

My philosophy is that you can't explain the world. It's too big and it's too crazy and sometimes it's funny and most of the time it's... strange.

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was—I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds.

I have never met such weird yet serious and earnest people.

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

W?a?ciwie wszystko mi jedno. Jestem wolnym cz?owiekiem, który zawis? wysoko nad miastem i z oddali z ?agodnym zdumieniem przygl?da si? dziwnym ludziom oraz ich dziwnym poczynaniom.

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.

Worst thing in the world? John is completely out of it. Good luck, ladies. He's a freak!

I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg