Top 154 Strangeness Quotes & Sayings

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

Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

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

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

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

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

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

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

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

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

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

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.

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.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

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

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

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

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.