Strangeness Quotes

• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Beauty, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Men, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - books 1 and 2 (illustrated)”, p.66, The Planet

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• Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ingredients

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• One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Inspirational, Live Life, Museums

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• Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

  Jean Genet

  Facts, Strange, Share

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

  Francis Bacon

  Happiness, Beauty, Art

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Beauty'

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• We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

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• Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Views, Sanity

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• All things must change
  To something new, to something strange.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Change, Strange, Something New

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.875, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

  Julia Quinn

  Things In Life, Ought

  Julia Quinn (2006). “When he was wicked”

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Strange

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [53]

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• Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Church

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• Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Stupid, Silly, May

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive. Wonder of wonders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hands, Rivers, Smell

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• In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Ravens, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.336, Scholastic Inc.

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• To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Real, Blow, Everyday

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• Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Knowing, Purpose

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.

  Moby

  Government, Cities, Crumbling

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

  William Kittredge

  Art, War, Believe

  William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

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• There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosopher, Strange, Said

  "Discourse on the Method". Treatise by René Descartes, Pt. 2, 1637.

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• The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

  Douglas Adams

  Hitchhiking, World, Complexity

  Richard Dawkins' Eulogy for Douglas Adams at Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, www.edge.org. September 17, 2001.

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• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  Lynn Barber

  Race, Biographies, Interviews

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• I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.

  Moby

  Art, Hands, Comfort

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• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  "Jackson Pollock" by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.

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