Top 100 Quotes About Strange World
#1. What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.
Jeanette Winterson
#2. It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern
#3. 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
#4. She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
David Brin
#5. It's kind of a strange world when you can trust a game format or platform more than the network news.
Michael Ironside
#6. Huge blocks of ice, weighing many tons, were lifted into the air and tossed aside as other masses rose beneath them. We were helpless intruders in a strange world, our lives dependent upon the play of grim elementary forces that made a mock of our puny efforts.
Ernest Shackleton
#7. He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his feelings of terrible purpose, shading this strange world
Frank Herbert
#8. But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.
Robertson Davies
#9. Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett
#10. It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.
Roger Caillois
#11. Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.
Bram Stoker
#12. We are in a strange world,' one senior Israeli official said to me, 'where the defense minister and to a lesser degree the prime minister are focused intently on the military option, and the intelligence services and the military, with some exceptions, are deeply doubtful.
David E. Sanger
#13. But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
Patrick Carman
#14. You're a strange, strange girl in a strange strange world.
Rhiannon Frater
#15. It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul.
"The strangest," he agreed.
Stephenie Meyer
#16. Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.
Solange Knowles
#17. And to Conrad, it seemed as though he had entered some strange world beyond our own, where nothing was as it appears, and anything could be possible.
Jonathan Maberry
#18. It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
Franklin P. Jones
#20. Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
Sara Sheridan
#21. This was such a strange world. Of course, when viewed afresh there were only strange worlds but this one must have been strangest of all.
Matt Haig
#22. What a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.
Alice Munro
#25. I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?
Keira Knightley
#26. Whether the circus travels far up in the North, or down South, whether it takes place in a tent or in a building, it is always the same strange world that knows no distinctions of race or creed -- it is the same fantastic place of glitter, hard work, courage and heartbreak.
Patricia Bourne
#27. It was a strange world. But Thomas was alive, and he lived.
James Dashner
#28. It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
Warren Ellis
#30. A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.
Robertson Davies
#31. What a strange world this was, that I could come here to lose everything about myself, and instead lose everything but me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#32. What a strange world where we pay people to listen to our problems, and pay them to fuck themselves while we watch, and pay them to save us.
Leah Raeder
#34. In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called
Scientists.
H.G.Wells
#35. He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#36. Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Joel Sternfeld
#37. What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns - as well as her own family.
Malala Yousafzai
#39. It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.
Michael Rooker
#40. How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
Shirley Bassey
#41. Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?
Bernard Malamud
#42. In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Albert Einstein
#43. The final section of the book returns to ourselves and asks how it is possible to think about our existence in the light of the strange world described by physics. The
Carlo Rovelli
#44. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.
Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.
Richie Norton
#45. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.
Hunter S. Thompson
#46. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.
Keira Knightley
#47. I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
Lauren DeStefano
#48. What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
Bernard Williams
#49. There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.
Paulo Coelho
#50. Make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home
God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive
Rumi
#51. We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
Jaye Davidson
#53. What a strange world we live in ... Said Alice to the Queen of hearts
Lewis Carroll
#54. What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.
Megan Whalen Turner
#55. It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
Samantha Shannon
#56. Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?
Margaret Cho
#57. I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.
Alber Elbaz
#58. World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.
William Shakespeare
#59. Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
Thomas Traherne
#60. Strange that I should choose you for the confidante of all this, young lady; passing strange that you should listen to me quietly, as if it were the most usual thing in the world for a man like me to tell stories of his opera - mistress to a quaint, inexperienced girl like you!
Charlotte Bronte
#61. It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give another twist to a normal madness.
John N. Gray
#62. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
Freya Stark
#63. It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.
Emily Bronte
#64. One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.
Haruki Murakami
#65. What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?
Euripides
#66. It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
John Green
#67. Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.
Erich Fromm
#68. I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!
Frederick Lenz
#69. Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.
Siri Hustvedt
#70. It's not so strange that when your memories change, the world changes.
Haruki Murakami
#71. Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept - the world aged, moved forward, yet I ... didn't.
Laura Kreitzer
#72. It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible connection--even one so strange as this--will outweigh all the details and triviality of the world that drive people apart.
Matthew Flaming
#73. And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.
Scott Westerfeld
#74. The domain of quantum world is so astonishingly strange that it even makes tales of alien abductions sound perfectly reasonable
Jim Al-Khalili
#75. There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
John Knowles
#76. It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.
Daphne Kalotay
#77. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#78. It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.
Toni Collette
#79. I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell and the portion of heaven in that strange, awful, maddening world- nymphet love. (135)
Vladimir Nabokov
#80. Strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love
Ruskin Bond
#81. What a strange yet pleasant day that was. So brilliant and gay without, for all the world
Louisa May Alcott
#82. I was myself the compass of that sea:
I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw
Or heard or felt came not but from myself;
And there I found myself more truly and more strange.
Wallace Stevens
#83. And he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of Elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. So tonight, when I have that dream, the dream where I know I am dreaming, I won't be scared of falling from the open window. Instead, I will go to the window and look out into the strange and unfamiliar world. And I will leap from the window, and I won't just fly. I will soar.
Roopa Farooki
#85. In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
Renata Adler
#86. I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned to anything strange; but the more I become familiar with and know myself, the more my deformity amazes me and the less I understand myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#87. Viewing the world from a different angle made it all look strange and dynamic, as if seeing it for the first time.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#88. A single soldier is nothing to anyone, but a single reporter can change the world." John
Chris Strange
#89. It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.
Billy Graham
#90. I feel my strange, beautiful bird in my heart, and the unflooded world all around me.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#91. The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#92. And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?
Douglas Coupland
#93. My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go.
Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
Eileen Wilks
#94. How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
Oscar Wilde
#95. As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
#96. The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave Barry
#97. 'Greek Street' is a very strange beast. I think of it as 'The Long Good Friday' meets 'Agamemnon.' A way of using those fantastically rich stories from Greek tragedy to take a look at our world and to explore some of the things I think about this world.
Peter Milligan
#98. The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
Neil Gaiman
#99. Now it happened that this Candaules was in love with his own wife; and not only so, but thought her the fairest woman in the whole world. This fancy had strange consequences.
Herodotus
#100. Whether you go your separate ways or stay together, you will continue to witness--against ignorance, against cruelty, and on behalf of all that is beautiful about this strange and crooked world.
Adam Gidwitz
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