Quotes About Strangeness

You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.

Ik weet een station in een onbekende stad kan soms vertrouwder zijn dan het trappenhuis van je eigen woning

Nothing can be imagined which is too strange or incredible to have been said by some philosopher.

Companions in pathos,who barely murmur,go with your lamp spent and return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

The home was familiar. But I was a stranger. There was a huge distance between me and this life that I had led. Everything was the same, yes - everything except me. The sameness in the things around me just served to illuminate the strangeness in me.

O mundo ficou louco, pensou. Os mortos andam por aí e eu acho isso normal.

could hear a funny sound. It was a faint, but very strange noise, like muffled harmonicas, or a far-off herd of elephants with upset stomachs.

Há memórias que são o próprio amor: o toque das mãos da minha mãe; o cheiro do cachimbo do meu Papá; o sorriso de Meia-Noite. E os olhos de Violeta. Compreendi que para mim ela era ao mesmo tempo uma estranha e a maior das amigas.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. "What do we do now?

Leo got up and brushed himself off. I hate that guy. He offered Jason his arm like they should go skipping together.I`m Dylan. I`m so cool, I want to date myself, but I can`t figure out how! You want to date me instead? You`re so lucky! Leo Jason said You`re weird

The world no longer shone, but it was very bright ... Strange world! Impossible world!

there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward normalcy. They suffer to exactly that degree that they are unable to appear normal to others, or to convince themselves that their aberration does not exist. These are true freaks, who appear, almost always, conventional and dull.

The insouciance of youth doesn't stay, but shades into "eccentricity," as people say when they are trying to be kind, until finally you become just another lonely crackpot. But I've always been this way. The strangeness just used to seem more fashionable, probably.

I woke up in a weird mood. A good mood, which was the weird part, all things considered.

She shone like a bright strange star shining in those empty lifeless halls, I write.

Se sentía como si hubiera sido un niño hasta ese día… Era como si hubiese estado viviendo en una casa con habitaciones en las que jamás había entrado, y la hubiese compartido con unos extraños a quienes jamás les había puesto los ojos encima. Se sentía desorientado por el descubrimiento de su propia ignorancia. Era como perder el equilibrio.

There was a strangeness in the house. Like settling stillness. Weighted dust.