Strangeness Quotes

“That Jim Morrison song gets it all wrong. People are strange when you’re a stranger, but it’s not because they ignore you—it’s when they notice you and smile, that’s when you realize you’re alone out here. Their kindness is what makes you notice how weak you are. That’s when you know it’s not the city’s fault, it’s yours. These people are in the same strange town, but they’re not letting the strangeness eat them up and turn them into robots. That’s just you.”

“It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

“If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange”

“I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves”

“Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.”

“Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.”

“When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.”

“In my family strange is relative.”

“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”