Strangeness Quotes - Page 5

• Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Night, World

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• 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.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Party, Fall, People

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Confusion, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

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• How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

  George MacDonald

  Death, Sunset, Literature

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Reality, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Marriage, Crazy

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• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Matter, Strange

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• Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.

  Jenny Diski

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Heart, Sea

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• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Giving, Waiting

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Weight, Claims, Evidence

  "Theeorie analytique des probabilites". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1812.

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• I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Fiction, Imagine, Terrible

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.228, Macmillan

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Artist

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.343, Macmillan

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• Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Taken, Sunset

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN".

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• I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beauty, Beautiful, Makeup

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• When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into a new relationship with our fellow men. Hatred becomes love; selfishness becomes service; and bitterness becomes forgiveness. (3) We enter into a new relationship with ourselves. Weakness becomes strength; frustration becomes achievement; and tension becomes peace.

  William Barclay

  Spiritual, Father, New Relationship

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• It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Spring, Flower, Character

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Walter Hagen

  Art, Character, Golf

  "Appreciations With An Essay On Style". Book by Walter Pater, 1889.

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• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

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• The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Life, Travel, Real

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".

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

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Motivational, Travel, Journey

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

  Gregory Maguire

  Sadness, Wonderful, Wonderful Times

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.230, Hachette UK

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