Strange Quotes - page 11

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. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
How strange women are. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite. View quote
Novalis
I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair. View quote
Molière
A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. View quote
William Shakespeare
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange? View quote
William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies. View quote
William Shakespeare
The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. (William Shakespeare)
If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web. View quote
Arthur Hugh Clough
I must no less commend the study of anatomy, which whosoever considers, I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxal, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature. View quote
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? View quote
Franz Schubert
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious. View quote
Albert Memmi
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge. View quote
Max Stirner
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions. View quote
Leo Strauss
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. View quote
Frank Herbert
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. View quote
J. D. Salinger
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. (Winston Churchill)
Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all. View quote
Arthur Miller
For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this - a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create - to create - to create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing. View quote
John Galsworthy
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet. View quote
Hugo Chávez