Quotes About Strange

Yes, the reaction is already upon me. I shall be as limp as a rag for a week. Strange, said I, how terms of what in another man I should call laziness alternate with your fits of splendid energy and vigor.

that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

La vida es infinitamente mas extraña que todo cuanto la mente del hombre podria inventar.

It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was; to shed assumptions, even certainties.

Bit by bit they slipped back into their old strange talk. Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi's Kuzari, Philosophy, Spinoza, and other such nonsense which went in one ear and out the other.

Another assumption is labelled 'regression', and here the reader encounters strange diagrams purporting to represent the direction of psychical energy within the mind.

A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.

Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson. You see that even a villain and murderer can inspire such affection that his brother turns to suicide when he learns that his neck is forfeited.

We're just... friends. No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances... OK. Let's face it. It's weird.

he came to know the god intimately and the strange mad flower of his mind dripped in the dark

I think that I've had a very strange life.

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.

It's a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun...Life is strange and wondrous...

That felt strange. How sharp a rent a handful of moments made in the fabric of a life.

Life is so strangeI don't know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,After offense returning, to regainLove once possess'd.

And then I started driving to the beaches, I guess to make sure there was a whole world ready to welcome me when I finally decided to join it—if I ever decided to. I always came there with the intention of meeting someone. But then I would see a screaming fairy—and suddenly I'd be ashamed. It's very strange—but I couldnt bear to look into his eyes, afraid, I guess, that he'd look back at me with recognition.

When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.