Strangeness – Quotes

And in the mean

And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness Ezra Pound

The only living life

The only living life is in the past and future – the present is an interlude – strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living. Eugene O’Neill

To tear ourselves away

To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow. Eugene Ionesco

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the … Read more

Sometimes we think of

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. Edwin Muir

Those who know God

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing. Edward McKendree Bounds

The fire. The odor

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante’s paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space … Read more

Strolling on, it seems

Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush … Read more

Science offers the boldest

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will … Read more

There is no excellent

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon