“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe87
Abolitionist, author 1811–1896Related quotes
“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”
Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch
Source: The Goldfinch
“What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 116
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.”
Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Context: How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving....
Amy Grant (1960) American musician
"That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
Song lyrics, Heart in Motion (1991)