Strange Quotes

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San Francisco is a really beautiful city. China Town, peopled by Chinese labourers, is the most artistic town I have ever come across. The people — strange, melancholy Orientals, whom many people would call common, and they are certainly very poor — have determined that they will have nothing about them that is not beautiful.

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers.

Is it not strange, that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare

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. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

William Shakespeare

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?

William Shakespeare

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

'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory... we are all kings in exile.

G. K. Chesterton

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

G. K. Chesterton

Michele [Besso] has left this strange world just before me. This is of no importance. For us convinced physicists the distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, although a persistent one.

Albert Einstein

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

F. Scott Fitzgerald