Stranger Quotes

#1. I stood there, shocked. I'd never hugged a perfect stranger before, but maybe this was how people in California did things.

Penelope King

#2. The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger ... with the chance acquaintance.

Ilya Kabakov

#3. Listen, stranger; this was myself: this was I.

Paul Theroux

#4. It's stranger than every strangeness
And the dreams of all the poets
And the thoughts of all the philosophers,
That things are really what they seem to be
And there's nothing to understand.

Alberto Caeiro

#5. Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.

Christina Rossetti

#6. And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

Herman Melville

#7. There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

Markus Zusak

#8. When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#9. The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

Baron De Montesquieu

#10. Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

#12. Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

Louis C.K.

#13. In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

Albert Camus

#14. No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#16. Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction

George Gordon Byron

#17. You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

Phil McGraw

#18. I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.

Doug Cooper

#19. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Bram Stoker

#21. Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one stranger. This always seems like a bit of a failing on my part, as a human. I think that's also why I put myself situations where I'm forced to engage in other ways.

Miranda July

#22. Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?
Touch me, hold me.
How my open arms ache!
Try to fall for me.

Kate Bush

#23. Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

John Burroughs

#24. Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.

Jose Rizal

#25. He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

Louisa May Alcott

#26. LXXXI ABBOT PASTOR was asked by a certain brother: How should I conduct myself in the place where I live? The elder replied: Be as cautious as a stranger; wherever you may be, do not desire your word to have power before you, and you will have rest.

Thomas Merton

#27. Isn't it strange some people make
You feel so tired inside,
Your thoughts begin to shrivel up
Like leaves all brown and dried!
But when you're with some other ones,
It's stranger still to find
Your thoughts as thick as fireflies
All shiny in your mind!

Rachel Field

#28. I am a stranger at a cocktail party.

Harper Lee

#29. It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger

Sarra Manning

#30. Hooking up with a tall, dark stranger in a bar wasn't anywhere on her to do-do list, but as she eyed those broad shoulders, the thick neck, strong-looking hands, and gorgeous mouth ...
What the hell, maybe he should be on the top of her "to-do" list.

Ophelia London

#31. The man who entered was a stranger. He was young, tall, and something about him suggested violence, though she could not say what it was, because the first trait one grasped about him was a quality of self-control that seemed almost arrogant.

Ayn Rand

#32. Perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

Elif Shafak

#33. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

#34. I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't forcing them to laugh - it's involuntary, and that's when they give the most honest response.

Trevor Noah

#35. The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

Matthew Perry

#36. Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!

Pink Floyd

#37. There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

Phoebe Rose

#38. A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#39. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death.

Eugene O'Neill

#40. Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

#41. Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.

Maureen Johnson

#42. Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear.

Caitlin Kittredge

#43. Not only good to be alive, but nice to come with a stranger. Intimacy? For now I want nothing of it. I am simply trying to emerge from the violent unnecessariness of death.

Luke Davies

#44. I met you as a stranger. Now I have you as a friend. I hope we meet on our next walk of life where our friendship never ends.
I may not be the most important person in your life but I just hope that when you hear my name you smile and say that's my friend!!!

Taylor Swift

#45. They always told me not to get in the car with strangers."
"I'm not a stranger. I'm your neighbor." "My strange neighbor.

Eva Morgan

#46. I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

Karen Hesse

#47. Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye contact and without condition. This is not the opportunistic sizing-up of sexual cruising; instead, it's the felt recognition of the divinity and humanity in another individual.

Alexandra Katehakis

#48. Morgan had been, for a very long time, the most remarkable object in her own landscape, and anything stranger than herself was, to her mind, either an obvious sham, or non-existent.

Shirley Jackson

#49. I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

Hualing Nieh Engle

#50. For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them.

Seamus Heaney

#51. Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Epicurus

#52. In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

Kobayashi Issa

#53. I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

Kate Winslet

#54. Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Khalil Gibran

#55. I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

Judith Kelman

#56. So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.

Philip Larkin

#57. No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Rumi

#58. Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Mike D

#59. Of all the parts that make up my somewhat quirky life, there are few things that raise a stranger's eyebrows faster than discovering I love country music.

LZ Granderson

#60. Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Steven Pressfield

#61. Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Ray McKinnon

#62. Speak your latent conviction ... Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#63. If you waited twenty-six years to have sex, you're probably not going to copulate with a stranger.

Shayla Black

#64. To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.

David Dudley Field II

#65. I was born Stranger
I will die Stranger
Unknown is my name
Unknown is my country.

Santosh Kalwar

#66. Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Oscar Niemeyer

#67. Traveling between Reardan and Wellpinit, between the little white town and the reservation, I always felt like a stranger. I was half Indian in one place and half white in the other. It was like being Indian was my job, but it was only a part-time job. And it didn't pay well at all.

Sherman Alexie

#68. What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

Ian O'Doherty

#69. The truth is stranger than fiction ... and often more incriminating.

Greg Cox

#70. For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

David Cannadine

#71. Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#72. We take our reflections for granted all our lives, until the hour comes when our eyes search for the familiar features and find instead the image of a stranger.

George R R Martin

#73. If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

Jeffrey Gitomer

#74. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling - as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic.

Ayn Rand

#75. You need to begin to network with angels and VCs while you are still ideating. It is easier to ask someone you know for funding than a stranger. Build your financial network by attending as many industry functions and reaching out for advice from experts online.

Jay Samit

#76. Love you. A stranger accidentally text messaged me the other day. I didn't delete it. I look at it before I go to bed at night and sometimes during the day. I know it wasn't meant for me ... but it's nice to pretend it was.

Frank Warren

#77. Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

Anne Lamott

#78. I love your bracelet!' I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

Ally Carter

#79. Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

Walter Goodman

#80. Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

Katarina Bivald

#81. Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

David Ebershoff

#82. Women are perfectly aware of any spare-tire, muffin-top bulge they may have. The last thing we need is a stranger reminding us that they're aware of it too.

Olive B. Persimmon

#83. There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

David S.Goyer

#84. Being a stranger was like being dead,
and brought to mind how, in a book he had read
that most folks misunderstood one common state:
The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

David Rakoff

#85. I know they say you shouldn't take candy from strangers, but it's a cookie and not candy and technically, I'm not a stranger.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#86. Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

Sara Shepard

#87. In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger
a stranger ... A stranger, and lonely ...

Anton Chekhov

#88. A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

John Fowles

#89. I give up. In the war for my parents' approval, I'd lost to a complete stranger.

Cora Carmack

#90. Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die.

Greg Mortenson

#91. Sometimes it feels as if I am living with a man who I don't know. A man whose face seems familiar but remains a stranger.

Mia Asher

#92. An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

John Lyly

#93. rapes your wife but perfectly legal to kill a total stranger

Clara Salaman

#94. Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Germaine Greer

#95. The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more readily than generosity. Any Santa who tried it would have gotten a bullet in his holly, jolly keister.

Thomm Quackenbush

#96. Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

David Blunkett

#97. He is both the Raffe I know and a terrifying stranger. He looks like a pissed-off demigod. I've only glimpsed him once in this perfect angel form.

Susan Ee

#98. One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

Laini Taylor

#99. Like most people on the planet I have experienced moments when a friend's, or just a stranger's, warm cheering up was like a gulp of oxygen essential for survival.

Sahara Sanders

#100. I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

W. Somerset Maugham