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Quotes About Strangeness

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.
~ Kid Koala aka Eric San
In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.
~ Robert Kelly
The day will always have some bit of weirdness in it like a piece of fruit with one bad spot. Spit it out as fast as u can and eat the rest!
~ Raven Moore
Life can be a strange yet wonderful experience to live, if only you learn to enjoy it more.
~ Dee Waldeck
The particulars of new places grabbed me and held me, the sweep of new coasts, cold, lovely dawns. The world was incomprehensibly large, and there was still so much to see.... I liked surrendering to the onrush, the uncertainty, the serendipity of the road. And I generally liked being a stranger, an observer, often surprised.
~ William Finnegan
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
~ Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.
~ Graham Greene, Brighton Rock
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.
~ Moby
I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.
~ Georges Simenon
Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.
~ James Wood
the impossible strangeness of moving things.
~ Jamie O'Neill
I always thought I should meet you. My cousin used to tell me how queer you were. I think, though, that you can make friends more quickly with queer people. Or else you don't make friends with them at all—one way or the other.
~ Jane Bowles
Reality is bizarre enough for me.
~ Jane Lane
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
~ Jason Schwartzman
nadie renuncia a la posibilidad de contar algo anómalo.
~ Javier Marías
Se vio incitado por ciertas personas lascivas a convertirse en un extraño para su mujer'.
~ Javier Marías
volver a verla, nunca más volver a verla. Qué extraño contacto ese contacto íntimo, qué fuertes vínculos inexistentes crea al instante, aunque
~ Javier Marías
It's stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what they seem to be And there's nothing to understand.
~ Alberto Caeiro
There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.
~ Alex Garland
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was Evor." "Strange that they do not resemble each other." "I have a good imagination." "Ah, in that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?
~ Alexandra Ivy