Unfamiliarity Quotes

“Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.”
― Yixing Zhang, 而立·24

“The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“...That is the way of the world, Slayer. Everyone hates and distrusts what is unfamiliar to them.”
― Maiya Ibrahim, Spice Road

“In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong.
That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.”
― Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet

“The very same woman to whom some men would kill to make love, some man is—or some men are—bored to death of fucking.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.”
― Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin

“It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.”
― Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin

“They couldn't reach the cord to make it stop & so it flew about scaring the older ladies just out of church. It left behind a trail of wet feathers & a renewed sense of the presence of evil among the faithful. Once they found out who started it, everyone settled down & went back to hating the usual stuff.”
― Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“If a man from medieval times could have seen this red-lit city, and the beings moving through it, he would certainly have believed himself in Hell. Even Jan, for all his curiosity and scientific detachment, found himself on the verge of unreasoning terror. The absence of a single familiar reference point can be utterly unnerving even to the coolest and clearest of minds.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“A person whose name we know is way more likely, to get our attention, than a person whose name we do not know. The opposite is true, when it comes to things.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana