Quotes About Strangeness

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,And did he stop and speak to you,And did you speak to him again?How strange it seems, and new!

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

No, lad, it no be the treasure that makes for seeing the world. If you find yourself a fistful of gold, or some dead king's jewels, all well and good, but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

The Aelfinn are not evil, but they are so different from humanity they may as well be so. They are not to be trusted. —Birgitte Silverbow

Sonderbarerweise sprechen wir oft davon, aber es ist gerade [grenzenloses Empfinden], was wir lebenslang vermeiden.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

We're performing the steps of our oldest dance. And even in this strange, sad, suspended state, I know that we are elegant at it.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without destroying the other. Fantasizing spares those we care about from the full irresponsibility and scary strangeness of our urges.

An important first step in overcoming defensiveness around art is to become more open about the strangeness that we feel in certain contexts.

He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn't expected the alien to be so completely alien.

I found it very difficult to feel easy around the guy, even once I'd got used to the shock of his presence. It's a strange feeling...the first time you meet him your brain wants to scream, blow a fuse and shut itself down immediately, refusing to accept that he exists. This lasts for a couple of minutes, at which time he's still there and hasn't gone away, and in the end you just accept him because he's standing there and talking to you and after a while it almost seems normal. Almost.

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

heyecan?n mutluluÄŸu and?ran tuhaf bir ac?ya dönüÅŸtüÄŸünü hissediyordu.

he is not like other children, not cruel, or savage. For this very reason he is called 'strange.' A child who is mature, in the sense that the heart is mature, is always, I have observed, called deficient.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

You can't know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.

I breathe deeply and say over to myself: - 'You are at home. You are at home.' But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things . . . I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

but a sense of strangeness will not leave me. I cannot feel at home among these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogony piano, but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.

I breathe deeply and say over to myself:- You are at home, you are at home. But a sense of strangeness will not leave me, I cannot feel at home amongst these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano - but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a veil between us.