Top 100 How Strange Quotes
#1. If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.
Carl Jung
#2. How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
Moon Unit Zappa
#3. You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.
J.M. Darhower
#4. How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
John Updike
#5. How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies.
Margaret Atwood
#6. How strange and rare it was to see the top of a girl's ear. I reached out to touch her, but my hand flew back from a spark of static electricity.
Amber Dermont
#7. The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars.
How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking
Mary Stolz
#8. All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
Roy Lichtenstein
#10. How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.
Sarra Manning
#11. How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?
Liane Moriarty
#12. How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
Ann Radcliffe
#13. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
Stephen Chbosky
#14. We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that something so huge & powerful & intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, & far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.
Peter Gray
#15. How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
Daniel Defoe
#16. How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#17. The sweet smile of a young woman. There is nothing better in the world. It is worth more than salt. Something in us sickens and dies without it. I am sure of this. Such a simple thing. How strange. How wonderful and strange.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#20. How strange it was ... , one minute you were all alone with your thoughts, the next somebody came along who seemed to know the deepest part of you, who could open you like a book.
Justin Cronin
#21. How strange it would now - like speaking without a voice. Is that what music is then, a ventriloquist with his doll ?
John Marsden
#22. Psychoanalysis gets interesting when it shifts the focus from making us more intelligible to ourselves to helping us become more curious about how strange we really are. And so, I would argue, does art.
Maggie Nelson
#23. And she thought then how strange it was that disaster
the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face
could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
Anita Shreve
#24. The Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is! But,
L. Frank Baum
#25. Gansey thought of how strange it was to know these two young men so well and yet to not know them at all. Both so much more difficult and so much better than when he'd first met them. Was that what life did to them all? Chiselled them into harder, truer versions of themselves?
Maggie Stiefvater
#26. How strange and god-like was a composer's power, who from the grave could lead through sequences of emotion, which he alone had felt at first, a girl like her who had never heard of his name, and never would have a clue to his personality.
Thomas Hardy
#27. How strange the way we wade into disaster, step after step, not realizing how far we've gone until we're drowning.
Matthew Salesses
#28. How strange it is that murder has the sanction of law in one and only one of the human relationships, and that is the most important of all, that of nation to nation.
Paul Harris
#29. How strange
it is. For perfect things in poetry do not seem strange;
they seem inevitable. And so we hardly thank the
writer for his pains.
Jorge Luis Borges
#30. Once again, the curious thing was how strange and forceful the world was, how it battered and clanged and could not be withstood, and yet some individuals withstood it while others did not.
Jane Smiley
#31. How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.
Maria Mitchell
#32. How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.
William Shakespeare
#33. How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.
Maggie Shipstead
#34. How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibilty, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes - how such people think nothing of abusing a man with low intelligence.
Daniel Keyes
#35. How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.
Walker Percy
#36. How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes of a historian on the way things were.
Marvin Allan Williams
#37. I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.
Christopher Nolan
#38. How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
Jonathan Lethem
#39. How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
Moliere
#40. How strange it is that the house of these hedonic stalwarts is filled with all the luxuries of life, right from plasma televisions to Swiss bank cheque books. So how will they notice the tonnes of food grains rotting in the northern belt?
Faraaz Kazi
#41. It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks - no matter what age - it would be an honor.
Alethea Kontis
#42. There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?
Audrey Hepburn
#43. How strange is that we are connected for years and we don't know each other just because we never initiated.. how pseudo is that connection or how pseudo social we are!!!
Himmilicious
#44. How strange that the only lands where he could feel something close to safe were the Christian countries of Europe, which Muslims had struggled and failed to conquer on more than one occasion. Those nations had a nearly suicidal openness to strangers,
Tom Clancy
#45. Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes
Paul Hoffman
#46. You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their souls they refused to do so, considering it a monstrous indulgence and a waste of money! (58)
Sarah Ferguson
#47. How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.
Louis Sullivan
#48. How strange to feel yourself falling in love with someone you've only just met.
Jonathan Goldstein
#49. How strange to use 'You only live once' as an excuse to throw it away.
Bill Copeland
#50. How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!
Myrtle Reed
#51. I couldn't get out of my head how strange it was that the smallest decisions in our lives can leave the biggest scars.
Cyn Balog
#52. The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.
George Carlin
#54. I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
Ira Glass
#55. Every time I drive into Rio from the airport, I see the city for the first time and think how strange it is.
Chico Buarque
#56. How strange it was to have the power to cause others to feel something she herself did not feel; and then catch the hint of it in their collective minds, and begin to feel it herself.
Kristin Cashore
#57. How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#58. How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald
#59. How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.
Al-Shafi'i
#60. O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#61. How things change,' I say, 'how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.
Judith Arnopp
#62. They ask to touch her hair and she asks to touch theirs back. This makes them all realize how strange and silly a request that is, and they giggle and become instant friends without a head petted between them.
N.K. Jemisin
#63. How strange that as I'm dying, you're calmly alive.
Taijun Takeda
#64. How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser
#65. I have this thing that whenever the slightest embarrassment happens I go bright red. Not in the attractive English-rose way; in the way that someone might glance over and stay 'Oh, how strange. A tomato with the body of a girl.
Liz Bankes
#66. Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.
Bones to Gregor
Jeaniene Frost
#67. How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.
Edward Abbey
#68. I wander through the halls and the campus, thinking how strange it is that you can live your whole life in one place and never really look at it.
Lauren Oliver
#69. How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world
Louis De Bernieres
#70. That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
Veronica Roth
#71. How strange, that when you are away, I reach for my cell phone's buzz as if it were your hand. Each shiver in my pocket, a way to find you.
Sarah Kay
#72. How strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.
Kate Atkinson
#73. How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)
Craig Silvey
#74. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
Emily Bronte
#75. How strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.
Donna Tartt
#76. How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence
I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#77. But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)
Emily Bronte
#78. How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow ... Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#79. How strange that there would be exactly twenty-four German carpenters in Chicago when the all-night manicure place on the corner of Oakley and Lawrence is called "24/7 Nails.
John Green
#80. How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
Mary Shelley
#81. How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
Veronica Roth
#82. How strange, I think - that I am in a place my parents have never been and will never see. How strange that I am here and they are gone.
Christina Baker Kline
#83. How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Richard Burton
#84. No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!
Robert Muller
#85. She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
Ayn Rand
#86. Now, I get how strange this is going to sound, but good old Craig here calling Mr. Cole a "fucking dick" somehow rubbed me the wrong way. I inexplicably felt like I was the only person in the world who'd earned that privilege.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#87. But if he has lost the sane vision, he can only get it back by something very like a mad vision; that is, by seeing a man as a strange animal and realising how strange an animal he is.
G.K. Chesterton
#88. It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.
Lauren Oliver
#89. How strange it was that cleave had two such disparate meanings; she'd known to cut and tear, but now she knew to cling. She rested her cheek in the valley between his shoulder and chest. Amos
Erika Swyler
#90. Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
Johann Ludwig Tieck
#91. How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
Frank Herbert
#92. How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.
Tom Clancy
#93. How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.
Marlena De Blasi
#94. How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.
Frank Herbert
#95. On the way home I thought: How strange. I didn't even mention my breakdown today. Perhaps the period of mourning is over. I can get back to my normal, lifelong problem: how to be a woman without hating yourself for being only a woman.
Ellen Wolfe
#96. I am quite determined to be mistress of my own fate, Mrs. Clutterthorpe, but I do sympathize with how strange it must sound to you. It is not your fault that you are entirely devoid of imagination. I blame your education
Deanna Raybourn
#97. If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
Kevin J. Anderson
#98. I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I ... I wanted to have the daring ... and I killed her.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#99. I mean, how strange is that we bring plant sex organs to people we're attracted to? What's up with that? It's a weird sign of affection.
Richelle Mead
#100. Hello old friend," he greeted it, "how strange for us to meet again, like this, with the snow blowing so outside."
"You know my ... my wrench?"
"Of course I know it. It was not a wrench when we were last acquainted, but ones friends may change clothes and still one knows them.
Catherynne M Valente
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