Oddity Quotes

“You say freak, I say unique.”
― Christian Baloga

“No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication they have
yet to experience?
Is it odd that I wish to
witness you with new eyes
so I may have the pleasure of
falling for you all over again?
I am grateful, so grateful,
for knowing the meaning
of your various sighs. For
being the cause of your
ecstatic cries. But,
if only for a moment,
I wish to let you fall out of my hands
so that I may catch you again.
You,
my love,
are the oddity.
You
are my exception.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Now I know, you can’t change what’s happened to you or hide it, or spin it, or get over it. All you can do is hold it confidently knowing that the mistakes are yours but so too is the wisdom earned along the punishing passage. Suffering is the catalyst for transformation. The wounds don’t define us; how we went about surviving does. Oddity, in this sickened society of medicated despair, is a blessed state.”
― L.M. Browning, To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity

“No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.”
― Peter Manseau, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead

“Tradition converts oddity into ordinary.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border town of such intensely chaotic oddity and corruption there was still some greater chaos, some deeper insanity, than one had counted on, or could ever be taken into account - wherever there was anything, there would be chaos and insanity to such a degree that one could never come to terms with it, and it was only a matter of time before your world, whatever you thought it to be, was undermined, if not completely overrun, by another world.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus’s foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.”
― Peter Manseau, Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead

“Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.”
― Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

“Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.”
― Philip Gulley

“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind of oddities make life more interesting, less boring!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earthworm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and refuse of the universe!”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of the narrow aisles between the banks of trading desks on the floor when one of the chief traders walked between us, his head momentarily between ours. At that instant he winced, clutched his head with both hands as though in excruciating pain, and exclaimed, “Aarrggh-hhh! The force field! It’s too intense! Let me out of the way!”
― Emanuel Derman, My Life As A Quant: Reflections On Physics And Finance

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.
(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count

“Because of the unlimited potential packed within each person, attaining greatness should have been the norm, not an oddity.”
― Assegid Habtewold, Soft Skills That Make or Break Your Success: 12 soft skills to master yourself, become a team player, and lead your company to absolute success

“Everything in nature is beautiful in its place there will be an odd when you change its place.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“You are as curious as the sea, asking a poem of the shore.”
― Mostafa A. M. Elbehery, The Sapphire Shore

“The enigma of stuttering is profound. For in a moment, you would sound very fluent, and at other times, you would struggle to utter even a word.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia