How Strange Quotes
Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.
If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.
It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.
You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.
Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'
Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
It puts you in a kind of a strange situation where everybody is looking at every little thing you do.
But there's times when I like to find the strange angles to something. People go, 'I heard a lot of jokes like that, but that's one of the most interesting takes I heard.' That's what I try to do.
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.
I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?
It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.
The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.
The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.
Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World.
A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "yes," he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page 33- chapter 5
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?