Strangeness Quotes

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

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.