Quotes About Strange

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death- a state I feared yet did not understand.

Nuestras almas están formadas de muy extraña manera y nuestras vidas penden solo de leves lazos, cuya rotura puede arrojarlas a la prosperidad o a la ruina. Cuando miro hacia atrás me parece que ese cambio casi milagroso en mis inclinaciones y en mi voluntad fue obra directa de mi ángel guardián, el último esfuerzo del espíritu de conservación para alejarme de la tormenta que ya se cernía sobre mí, dispuesta a envolverme.

Qué mudables son nuestros sentimientos, y cuán extraño es ese apego tenaz que tenemos a la vida incluso cuando estamos sufriendo horriblemente!

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

Nuestras almas están formadas de muy extraña manera y nuestras vidas penden sólo de leves lazos, cuya rotura, puede arrojarlas a la prosperidad o a la ruina.

it doesn't feel like home—more like a strange, wildly expensive sleepaway camp for pseudoadults.

Stuart, who had just witnessed me go through an entire rainbow of emotions and experiences. There was parents-have-just-been-jailed me, stuck-in-a-strange-town me, insane-and-can't-shut-up me, kind-of-snarky-to-the-strange-guy-trying-to-be-helpful me, breakup me, and the extremely popular jump-on-top-of-you-unexpectedly me.

That particular April day was strange and foggy, blurring spaces between the trees and blanketing all of Ellingham in a milky mist. Dottie decided that the weather lent itself to a mystery. Sherlock Holmes would be perfect.

It's a very strange feeling," Theo said, "a secret I've been holding all these years being out in the open at last. What you did last night was impressive. It's . . . so strange. I feel like something's missing. Of course, something—someone—is missing.

It was strange, she thought, to obtain news by means of nothing but denials, as if existence had ceased, facts had vanished and only the frantic negatives uttered by officials and columnists gave any clue to the reality they were denying.

This nation is very strange. It watches tyranny in silence and in time it proves its own will—the fact of its existence—through passive resistance

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

we notice a discrepancy in sequences, that would be strange.

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.

The world is a very strange place, and there are times when the metaphorical or narrative description characteristic of culture and the material representation so integral to science appear to touch, when everything comes together—when life and art reflect each other equally.

Miedo y odio son el origen del mal: Rahini tenía razón. Miedo y odio a lo extraño, a lo ajeno, a lo que no somos nosotros. Pero se trata solo de oscuridad. Y la oscuridad es pequeña en comparación con la luz de las palabras.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.