„I could not but be struck by the strangers.“

— Bram Stoker
„Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.“
— Jane Austen
„Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.“
— Arthur Conan Doyle
„Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.“
— Terry Pratchett
„I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.“
— Anaïs Nin