Strangeness Quotes

  • All things must change to something new, to something strange. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ~ Jean Genet
  • Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees. ~ Boris Marshalov
  • Education helps one cease being intimidated by strange situations. ~ Maya Angelou
  • How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. ~ George MacDonald
  • I have been a stranger in a strange land. ~ The Holy Bible
  • I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that’s not even in the vocabulary. ~ Kim Basinger
  • I’m human; nothing that is human is strange to me. A good run is better than a bad fight. ~ Polish Proverb
  • Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ~ William Shakespeare
  • It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self. ~ Francis Bacon
  • It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. ~ Albert Einstein
  • It is strange what contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~ George Duhamel
  • It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. ~ Goethe
  • Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins. ~ Frank Dane
  • Men don’t build on strange ground. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. ~ William Shakespeare
  • Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. ~ Ayrton Senna
  • Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. ~ Rose Macaulay
  • On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! ~ Eliza Cook
  • Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does. ~ Groucho Marx
  • Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. ~ Stephen Vizinczey
  • Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. ~ Albert Einstein
  • 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
  • Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. ~ Samuel Pepys
  • The only living life is in the past and future — the present is an interlude — strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living. ~ Eugene O’Neill
  • The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. ~ Blaise Pascal
  • There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ~ Herman Melville
  • There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. ~ Louis Aragon
  • There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~ Francis Bacon
  • There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. ~ Rene Descartes
  • They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. ~ Plato
  • ‘Tis strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel. ~ William M. Thackeray
  • Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. ~ Lord Byron
  • We have a strange and wonderful relationship – he’s strange and I’m wonderful. ~ Mike Ditka
  • We that are true lovers run into strange capers. ~ William Shakespeare
  • What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. ~ Lord Byron
  • What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire. ~ Blaise Pascal
  • When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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