Top 100 Isn't It Strange Quotes
#1. Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's all good.
Victoria Schwab
#2. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
Ivan Turgenev
#3. Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?
Alan Moore
#4. Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
Thom Yorke
#5. Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.
Isabella Olivia Ellis
#6. Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well?
Alan Brennert
#7. Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?
Dave Matthews
#8. Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?
Bill Watterson
#9. Isn't it strange how most of us reach an age where we just fold up our imaginations and stuff them in our closets? I think I've learned more about you from these impossible dreams than from anything else you've said.
Jeffrey Overstreet
#10. Isn't it strange that the emotions of love and the afflictions of lust are look-alike, bewildering women from discerning the lover from a seducer, and unfortunately for them the language of love and the dialect of lust have a common alphabet causing this confusion.
BS Murthy
#11. An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish - which is what it is.'
Alexander McCall Smith
#12. Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
Charles Lindbergh
#13. There are things
that make no sense,
that seem unreal,
that can't be grasped
or understood
or explained,
that maybe don't even exist ...
And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.
Isn't it strange?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#14. Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head?
Robin Hobb
#15. Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
Bo Burnham
#16. Isn't it strange, Dez, that we never see certain parts of ourselves? Our backs, our lungs, our hearts. We never know what it really is to sit across from ourselves.
Maryanne O'Hara
#17. She said she'd have spoken years ago, only she thought I wouldn't. And I never spoke to her because I was sure she wouldn't speak to me. Isn't it strange how people misunderstand each other?
L.M. Montgomery
#18. Isn't it strange how one child can be so lucky, when not a stone's throw away another child's life has taken quite the opposite direction?
Helen Laycock
#19. Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own?
Greg Gifune
#20. Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein
#21. Isn't it strange how much we know
if only we ask ourselves
instead of somebody else.
Richard Bach
#22. Isn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?
Christina Engela
#23. Isn't it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives ... yet we so often forget the most important ones?
Fabio Moon
#24. Isn't it strange how life is always taking you to places and to people you're supposed to see and meet?" "You
Mark T. Sullivan
#25. Isn't it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. Isn't it strange how often your butt gets all the instructions?" Gerry said conversationally to Mason, "Mine gets hustled all over the place, it's quite the social butterfly.
Rolf
#27. Isn't it strange how the most lethal cynics are often the most optimistic creative dreamers?
Robert Black
#28. A dry maple leaf has come off and is falling to the earth; its movement is exactly like a butterfly's flight. Isn't it strange? Gloom and decay - like brightness and life.
Ivan Turgenev
#29. Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff?
Marian Keyes
#30. Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?
Suzanne Collins
#31. Isn't it strange to see an event happening precisely because it was not supposed to happen?
Anonymous
#32. Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in
Ronald Reagan
#33. Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, 'How can this thing be happening; isn't it strange?'
Sophie Hannah
#34. Isn't it strange how much of our lives are interchangeable, how little is truly ours.
Lang Leav
#35. Isn't it strange
when you're single, all you see is couples, and when you're part of a couple, all you see are hookers.
Jim Gaffigan
#36. Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?
Anita Desai
#37. Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.
Coretta Scott King
#38. Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!
Rachel Field
#39. How I even do something without knowing what I do?? (Isn't it Strange??)
Deyth Banger
#40. Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?
Stephanie Martson
#41. I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?
Jerry Hall
#42. It's very strange to be completely naked in public," said Jacob. "It isn't something Americans ordinarily do."
"I can't say it's very English, either," replied Henry.
"It's a Scottish thing, though, isn't it? With all the kilts and all that.
Caleb Crain
#43. Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them.
David Whitaker
#44. Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
Margaret Cho
#45. And for the first time since coming home, i'm completely happy. It's strange. Home ... to be here, in my technical house, and discover now someplace different ... Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? ... For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person. And we're finally home.
Stephanie Perkins
#46. It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.
Pat Barker
#47. It's a strange life, isn't it? ... A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo ... home is a family.
Lisa Kleypas
#48. You ... you and Doc trying to protect me?"
"Strange world, isn't it?"
In was a few seconds before I could answer.
"The strangest," I finally agreed.
Stephenie Meyer
#49. SCORPIUS: A doe? Lily's Patronus. SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within.
J.K. Rowling
#50. I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.
Philip Kerr
#51. Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff - relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about' - like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.
E. E. Cummings
#52. It takes time to get used to a strange house, especially one as old as this. Even I sometimes find myself looking over my shoulder when I'm alone in it. It's the way of such places, isn't it? They wear their history heavily.
John Connolly
#53. What is it?" I ask, terrified I have done something wrong.
"Nothing," Stirling replies, running a finger over his own lips. "I thought it would be different, that's all. Actually, it was like kissing a girl. Isn't that strange?
K.C. Finn
#54. So she is pretty and he is rich. No doubt society will judge it an excellent match. I know my father does thus a woman he found intolerable for his son is in turn found ideal for his associate. strange isn't it how it's the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent
Galen Beckett
#55. My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.
Radclyffe Hall
#56. It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.
Paul Graham
#58. Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.
Jackie Kay
#59. Chemistry is so important and so unpredictable. Sometimes you get in a room with someone where aesthetically you make perfect sense as a couple, and then you read, and you're both kind of sitting there like, 'This isn't working for some strange reason; it just doesn't really pop.'
Margot Robbie
#60. When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
Keith Jarrett
#61. It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
John Steinbeck
#62. My visitors are often surprised when they see the TV Mack put in my domain. They seem to find it odd, the sight of a gorilla staring at tiny humans in a box. Sometimes I wonder, though: Isn't the way they stare at me, sitting in my tiny box, just as strange?
Katherine Applegate
#63. It's strange, isn't it? The greatest gift you could have given her stemmed from your disgrace. It's enough to make me start going to church.
Jane Steen
#64. It isn't about kneeling in strange places at strange times; it's about the willingness to obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. It's about a willingness to kneel anyplace, anytime.
Mark Batterson
#65. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
Anais Nin
#66. It's strange, isn't it? No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy.
Haruki Murakami
#67. Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
Pablo Picasso
#68. The remarkable thing," said Doc, "isn't that they put their tails up in the air - the really incredibly remarkable thing is that we find it remarkable. We can only use ourselves as yardsticks. If we did something as inexplicable and strange we'd probably be praying - so maybe they're praying.
John Steinbeck
#69. If the love is true, then treat it the same way you would plant - feed it, protect it from the elements - you must do absolutely everything you can. But if it isn't true, then it's best to just let it wither on the vine.
Hiromi Kawakami
#70. And isn't that strange, she thought, the way one city can swirl inside another; the way you can be in one country yet carry another country in your skin; the way a place is changed by whoever comes to it, the way silt invades the body of a river.
Carolina De Robertis
#71. Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
S.M. Stirling
#72. The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical values are far away from mine, like a cup of tea with 400 lumps of sugar in it. There's something very strange about Simon Cowell's lips, isn't there?
Charles Hazlewood
#74. So if you see a star and he needs a little money So come on baby give it to him this isn't funny! Just reach into your pocket, and pull out some change, Come on baby help a star it's not strange!
Brad Sherwood
#75. I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.
Gwenno
#76. Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders
#77. When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist watches seek to counsel Him who oversees cosmic clocks and calendars.
Neal A. Maxwell
#78. But it's strange, isn't it?" Eri said.
"What is?"
"That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.
Haruki Murakami
#79. I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.
Chad Kroeger
#80. In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
Henri Nouwen
#81. Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn it, like all Londoners, he knew his Tube map, and this was going too far. "There isn't a British Museum Station," said Richard, firmly.
Neil Gaiman
#82. Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Henry Travers
#83. Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
Herman Wouk
#84. It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.
Elise Broach
#85. It's strange how that happens, isn't it? You forget how something looks, or smells or tastes or sounds.'
'Until it's suddenly there again,' he agreed.
'Like it was never gone.
Natalia Jaster
#86. That's the dream of sex, isn't it? That you will be liberated from the prison of the body by the body itself, at long last desired, its strange tongue understood.
Olivia Laing
#87. we loved reenacting what we saw. The Church Lady's catchphrases were our catchphrases, and we repeated them until my mother said, exasperated: "Please stop saying 'Isn't that special?' in that strange voice. It is annoying to me and to others." At
Mindy Kaling
#88. No. Your thoughts are what make you. But your body isn't a meaningless thing either. Call me strange, but I think only the person you love the most should see you like that. And not here
in an ugly, dirty place
when you haven't even thought about it.
Emm Cole
#89. It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
Tommy Cooper
#90. The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.
Gaston Bachelard
#91. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#92. Strange, isn't it?" he asks.
"Where life takes you and
how much can change.
Emma Cameron
#93. Of course it isn't. It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or - what's that strange thing you British play?" "Er, cricket? Self-loathing?" "Parliamentary democracy.
Douglas Adams
#94. It's strange, but I find myself more disillusioned by a man who has such easily persuaded views than I would be by one whose views were entirely opposite but passionately held. Isn't that quixotic of me?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#95. 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.
Guy Finley
#96. It's strange, isn't it? How humans can protect their own with such fierceness and loyalty, yet not blink an eye when it comes to destroying someone else.
Caroline Fyffe
#97. I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
N.K. Jemisin
#98. ... Something isn't right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don't know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean."
"Sure. This is a magic bed-and-breakfast and the two guys in my kitchen are aliens from outerspace.
Ilona Andrews
#99. Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#100. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them?
Anais Nin
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