Quotes About Becoming A Stranger

#1. One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

Klaus Mann

#2. Becoming" a stranger seems easier to maintain than "being" a stranger... The former can be sustained forever and can be resumed time and again... The latter needs just a smile or a handshake or a word of recognition to break...

Gayathri Jayakumar

#3. I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the woman I'd known my entire life that was quickly becoming a stranger.

Megan Miranda

#4. The world is full of pain, uncertainty, and injustice. But in this vulnerable human life, every loss is an opportunity either to shut out the world or to stand up with dignity and let the heart respond.

Jack Kornfield

#5. We have the disgrace of racial discrimination, or we have prejudice against people because of their religion. We have not had the courage to uproot these things, although we know they are wrong.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

Paul Buchheit

#7. It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.

Mandy Patinkin

#8. I celebrate the death of my ego every day.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

Walt Whitman

#10. I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.

Peter Jackson

#11. Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

Conor Oberst

#12. You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she'd never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Jarod Kintz

#14. You do get the pregnant mush-brain ... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned.

Kate Hudson

#15. Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.

Marianne Williamson

#16. I was fourteen, doing my best and trying hard to become fifteen.

Cameron Jace

#17. Suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

Anne Sexton

#18. No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

Sarah Vowell