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Quotes About Strangeness

En realidad, Dios era la encarnación de las fuerzas. También la más paradójica de las fuerzas: ¿existe acaso algo más extraño que ese implacable poder que emana de lo que no se mueve?
~ Amelie Nothomb
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
~ Jackson Pollock
Let's face it: quaintness is creepy.
~ Janet Varney
Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.
~ Mika
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
Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.
~ Richard White
Pero a mí me pareció que había algo raro en su forma de hablar y en su aburrimiento: una sombra malévola en su ceño, y en su actitud una determinación que me produjo cierto desasosiego al mirarle
~ Roald Dahl
But for some reason I have not yet become a fish. - The Box Man, p.36
~ Kobo Abe
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13
~ L. Frank Baum
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.
~ L. Frank Baum
But—pardon me if I seem inquisitive—are you not all rather—ahem! rather unusual? asked the Woggle-Bug, looking from one to another with unconcealed interest. Not more so than yourself, answered the Scarecrow. Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.
~ L. Frank Baum
All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.
~ Richard Dawkins
There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
~ Thomas Hardy
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~ Walter Hagen
Life struck us as being a strangely volatile thing. It was exactly as though life were a salt lake from which most of the water had suddenly evaporated, leaving such a heavy concentration of salt that our bodies floated buoyantly upon its surface.
~ Yukio Mishima
Sometimes I forget that being a skeleton is unusual,
~ Derek Landy
More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.
~ Mustafa SULTAN
Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that…" Then the darkness took it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
When they got back into the carriage they felt greater strangers than before.
~ Émile Zola
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
~ Emily Bronte
Pa ni prva junakinja tog imena [Catherine] nije bez odre?ene ?udne ljepote u svojem divljaštvu, niti je nepoštena usred izopa?ene strasti i strastvene izopa?enosti.
~ Emily Bronte
Al??kanl?k denen ÅŸeyin zevklerimizi, düÅŸüncelerimizi bu kadar etkilemesi ne tuhaf...
~ Emily Bronte
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
~ Emily Dickinson