28 Quotes About Strangeness

We all experience the strangeness of life, but how we deal with it is what really makes us unique. Whether your strange encounters are funny or horrifying, these strange quotes will inspire you to embrace the weirdness of life and enjoy every moment of it.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of...
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Arthur Conan Doyle
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It’s stranger than every strangeness And the dreams of all the poets And the thoughts of all the philosophers, That things are really what they seem to be And there’s nothing to understand. Alberto Caeiro
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Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can’t draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It’s not a poison. Allyse Near
He held her hand and shook his head.
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He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape? Greg Bear
Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their...
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Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious. Yuhta Nishio
Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and...
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Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like. So what if the majority became what we see as wierd now? Would our normal, become our new wierd? Catherine Of Genoa
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There are others who have strange eyes?' I asked, perking up. Kester suddenly wished he hadn't spoken. 'Well, not as distinctive as you. No one actually has purple ones. Shades of green and blue are sometimes too bright than normal, but I don't recall anyone having eyes like y Deepika Kumaaraguru
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But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costs And benefits of loving those who don't love Strangers. After all, I'm often the odd one– The strangest stranger–in any field or room." He was weird" will be carved into my tomb. Sherman Alexie
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
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Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty. Charles Baudelaire
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All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. Roman Payne
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Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time. Richard White
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I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival. J.A. Baker
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For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them. David Sedaris
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A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature or a landscape can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millenia. Albert Camus
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Just when you see a kid selling a mascot, If you don't buy it because he winks, Not only that will be considered a "boycott", Xenophobically, it will also be a jinx! Ana Claudia Antunes
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He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated–not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves. . T.A. Miles
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I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here. Unknown
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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us. Alain De Botton
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It was true that the city could still throw shadows filled with mystifying figures from its past, whose grip on the present could be felt on certain strange days, when the streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas. Christopher Fowler
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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun… Jim Morrison
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It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world! Unknown
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If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange SarahKate Lynch
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Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift. Unknown
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Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright weird. But then again, you’d have to be. To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors. . Christopher Hopper
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People are strange .. . Jim Morrison
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In my family strange is relative. Kate Rockland
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I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves Rita Dove