Strange Quotes - Page 39

• People are strange when you're a stranger.

  Jim Morrison

  People, Stranger, Norwegian Wood

  "Song: "People are strange" ("Strange Days")". 1967.

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• And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Stronger, Events, Life Is

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.305, Macmillan

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• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  Ted Dekker

  Lonely, Taken, Intelligent

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• The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Heart, Logic, Beast

  Maria V. Snyder (2011). “Touch of Power”, p.347, MIRA

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• It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dark, Past, Opposites

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• It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Heart, Monsters, Violence

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Butterfly, Movement

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1961). “Fathers and sons”, Signet Classics

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• If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

  Paulo Coelho

  Life Is, Alone Life, Ifs

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• Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!

  Anchee Min

  Men, Long, Brain

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• I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

  Anna Funder

  Beautiful, School, Names

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books

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• Sometimes when she looks at him that way he finds himself almost blushing; a feeling so strange he almost doesn’t recognize it. Jace Wayland doesn’t blush.

  Cassandra Clare

  Feelings, Looks, Way

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• It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

  William Carlos Williams

  Stars, Giving, Shining

  William Carlos Williams, Edith Heal (1978). “I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moon, Light, Two

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 07, 2015

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• His left eyebrow crept higher and higher as I told him the strange bits like the glowing letters and serpent staff. "Well, Sadie," Inspector Williams said. "You've got quite an imagination." "I'm not lying, Inspector. And I think your eyebrow is trying to escape." He tried to look at his own eyebrows, then scowled.

  Rick Riordan

  Lying, Thinking, Glowing

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Beautiful, Blue, Sky

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.80, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• How strange women are.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

  Stephen Chbosky

  New Year, Party, Years

  Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Being in love is a very strange thing.

  Pittacus Lore

  Being In Love, Love Is, Strange Things

  Pittacus Lore (2011). “The Power of Six: Lorien Legacies”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.

  Libba Bray

  Men, Animal, Hands

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• Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Self, Medicine, Understanding

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “The Spinoza Problem: A Novel”, p.167, Basic Books

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• In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Liberty, Gone

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.94, Vintage

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• Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Lying, Heart, Way

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• There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Pride

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.169, Bibliolis Books

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• I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head and tried to feel the shock of them, but they remained strange and cruel, far removed from Ferris and me. It was simpler to say I was in love.

  Maria McCann

  Atheist, Stairs, Appetite

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• I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Somewhere Under, Feelings, Ribs

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