Quotes About Strangeness

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

a master hand that had grown bored with its own expertise, and started to veer towards the grotesque.

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

the odds are good, but the goods are odd

Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.

And anybody at all can see it, but you can't. It just floats there in front of you. It might as well be your soul, for all you can do to protect it. What isn't strange, when you think about it.

Many of the real scenes in early California life exceed in strangeness and interest any of the mere products of the brain of the novelist," he declared

El universo no es solamente más raro de lo que suponemos, sino más raro de lo que podemos suponer.   J. B. S. HALDANE, 1924

there with the unfamiliar insignia of their rank.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We're forging out into deep space – who knows what we'll meet out there? If we can't even accept a robot and some talking elephants, what good are we going to be when we meet something really strange?

Jer u obi?nom, svagdašnjem svijetu ljudskih odnopsa bio je neobi?no nalik na stranca. Nelagodno se osje?ao me?u ljudima i bilo mu je teško ili ?ak nemogu?e zapodjenuti razgovor bilo s kime osim s onim koji je govorio njemu vlastitim, intelektualnim jezikom ideja. U emocionalnom je pogledu bio stranac.

Myslel jsem sami, abychom si mohli pohovoÃ…â"¢it," zamumlal. "PohovoÃ…â"¢it - a o ?em?" Procházet a hovoÃ…â"¢it - opravdu, velmi podivný zp?sob, jak strávit odpoledne.

There's nowt so queer as folk?

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

Só vi um, o Jõe Bexiguento, sobrechamado o Alpercatas: esse era homem de estranhez em muitos seus costumes

She felt the warmth of Peter's arm under her neck, and it almost felt like he was an extension of her, and like if they had souls, they lay somewhere snug between their two bodies. Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.

She felt herself alone, lost like a stranger in some fantastic country whose language and mode of life were alike incomprehensible, surrounded by enemies in an atmosphere of suspicion and perpetually lurking, unimaginable dangers.

Since he'd gone, the world had become unnervingly strange. There was nothing she could do and nowhere she could go. She felt lost, lonely, dazed, deprived of everything, even of her identity, which was not strong enough to survive without his constant encouragement and reassurance.