Top 100 The Stranger Quotes
#1. It's the worst feeling when you come home alone late at night and think the stranger sitting on your couch is a pile of clothes.
Dane Cook
#2. Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.
William S. Burroughs
#3. Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.
Davy Crockett
#4. He held the sword as if he's used one before," Rhys said.
The stranger snorted. "Of course I've used a sword. What kind of Highlander can no' wield a blade?
Donna Grant
#5. No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
#6. The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God's mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?
Kazuo Ishiguro
#7. The deeper we go, the fewer the lights, the dirtier the buildings, the stranger the animals, but the more brilliant the graffiti.
Pierce Brown
#8. You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?
Jodi Picoult
#9. Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
- T. S. Eliot
Harlan Coben
#10. The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#11. You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#12. The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger
so it be done for love, and not forostentation
do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. 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
#14. Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.
John Burroughs
#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. There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
Markus Zusak
#17. The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
Lorna Luft
#18. I was hoping to feel something when I saw her. She was my incubating uterus and birthday party thrower for the last seventeen years. I half expected a rush of warmth or memories, some familiarity. I flinch away from the stranger in front of me.
Colleen Hoover
#19. Rabids, the stranger had called them. It fit. I wondered where he was now, where he was going. I hoped, wherever it was, he would find his peace.
Julie Kagawa
#20. So, I'm not strange anymore?" he asks.
"What?"
"You're riding in my car, which must mean I'm not a stranger anymore."
"Actually, the more I'm around you, the stranger you get.
Kiersten White
#21. And a soul
if it is to know itself
must look
into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
Giorgos Seferis
#22. And if the soul
Is to know itself
It is into a soul
That it must look:
The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
Giorgos Seferis
#24. I'm not ... ' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
Charles De Lint
#25. A credulous mind ... finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.
Samuel Butler
#26. Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. 'You are clever, O Samana,' said the Illustrious One, 'you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.
Hermann Hesse
#27. Enfield MA is one of the stranger little facts that make up the idea that is metro Boston, because it is a township composed almost entirely of medical, corporate, and spiritual facilities.
David Foster Wallace
#28. The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
Charles Dudley Warner
#29. Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
Herman Melville
#30. Hi, the werewolf said. He was dark-haired and broad, with gold eyes, big hands, and a feral scruffiness that Cole felt and instantly responded to. He had the weird urge to kill a cow and present it to the stranger. Two cows.
MaryJanice Davidson
#31. "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.
Anthony De Mello
#32. If we deny the thirst of love, we stand to lose the last known address of the stranger whithin us.
Sorin Cerin
#34. Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor. To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.
Jean Vanier
#35. What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
W.E.B. Du Bois
#36. Judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's.
Anonymous
#37. He didn't have the loose-limbed cockiness of a man her age, springing to attention with the desire to impress everyone with his agility and form. No, the stranger moved with a languorous arrogance of a man more settled into his skin. A sort of graceful conceit that suggested entitlement.
Vivienne Lorret
#38. Max saw the stranger give him the once-over, recognised it for what it was. Women had been making him offers since before he was legal. And he'd learned to turn them down without hurting their feelings ...
Nalini Singh
#39. I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to me the more we learn about living creatures, especially ourselves, the stranger life becomes.
Lewis Thomas
#40. As strange as the new days seemed to us at first, the old days would come to feel very quickly the stranger.
Karen Thompson Walker
#41. He kept on digging but the grave did not get any deeper. "The dead are poor," he said in the voice of the stranger. You can't be any poorer than dead.
Flannery O'Connor
#42. In a mask we are faceless and classless, ageless and anonymous. Masks reveal the primal urge to behave like the beast in rut that leaps on the stranger or waits in the penumbra to be leapt upon.
Chloe Thurlow
#43. The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.
Sean Murphy
#44. The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.
Eudora Welty
#45. The stranger's way of looking at things, the eye of a man who does not recognize, who is beyond this world, the eye as frontier between being & non-being - belongs to the thinker. It is also the eye of a dying man, a man losing recognition.
Paul Valery
#46. I end up discussing the weather when the weather is all around us and both I and whoever the stranger might be must surely have noticed it. We would be better off asking each other if our faces are still there.
A. L. Kennedy
#47. Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
Tamra Davis
#48. In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is ... that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.
Marquis De Custine
#49. Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.
Jana Wolff
#50. One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
Ogden Nash
#51. Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
Laurence Sterne
#52. The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.
- The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism
Mark Twain
#53. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
Rabindranath Tagore
#54. It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.
George Santayana
#55. That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J.M. Coetzee
#56. I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
Adam Pally
#57. Coralie felt something pierce through her, as if she were a fish on a hook, unable to break free. She felt a tie to the stranger, drawn to his every movement.
Alice Hoffman
#58. The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)
Mark Twain
#59. He glanced at the stranger in the seat beside him and tried to remember when she used to be his daughter.
Jodi Picoult
#60. Having anticipated the onward march of our selfish genes, many of us are unprepared for children who present unfamiliar needs. Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity.
Andrew Solomon
#61. L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan
#62. The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.
John Wesley
#63. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
Homer
#64. You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
Billy Joel
#65. The ladies' fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.
Frances Hardinge
#66. Shall I let in the stranger,
Shall I welcome the sailor,
Or stay till the day I die?
Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
Hold you poison or grapes?
Dylan Thomas
#67. Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Timothy Radcliffe
#68. One look at the stranger staring back re-convinced me that I had to be dreaming. It was me, but at the same time completely not me.
Cristina Rayne
#69. Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
Richard Bach
#70. In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
Huston Smith
#71. [ ... ] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.
Charles Dickens
#72. To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control ...
T. S. Eliot
#73. The ultimate message of this book is terrifying: you may not know your own children, and, worse yet, your children may be unknowable to you. The stranger you fear may be your own son or daughter.
Sue Klebold
#74. I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
Robert Breault
#75. I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#76. I had to test your courage," the stranger said. "Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World." The boy
Paulo Coelho
#77. True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.
Kathleen Norris
#78. Some party," the stranger whispered in her ear. She twisted to see sapphire eyes gleaming at her. "Are you from Melisande?
Sarah J. Maas
#79. They were so tired, in fact, that they didn't notice the stranger who had followed them back, watching from the trees as they made their way home.
Jonathan Ballagh
#80. Distance is confusing," the stranger would tell people, anyone who would listen. "So is time.
Joseph Fink
#81. Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
Buffalo Bill
#82. You need to be confronted
By the Stranger on the shore
You need to have Him search your soul
You need to hear the call
You need to learn exactly
What it means for you to follow
You need to realize that He's asking for your all.
Michael Card
#83. Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.
Joyce Meyer
#84. I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.
Grant Evans
#85. Who are you?" the boy asked. He examined the stranger from head to toe and made a face. "You're ugly." "And
Claire Legrand
#86. The stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility
Parker J. Palmer
#87. The Stranger: Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.
Fred Barnett
#88. She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was "the stranger". And of course, that was the difference that made everyone's emotions stranger.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Rough and dark is often the veil of the soul, while within, so pure and transparent. Like the grey crust upon ice, that, when severed, reveals within a pure blue light, like the transparent ether. Thus remain veiled to the stranger, but be not concealed from thyself.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
#90. The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.
Gordon Lightfoot
#91. I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!
Elizabeth Gilbert
#92. It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#93. Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,
Rudyard Kipling
#94. The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.
Stephen Fry
#95. An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.
James A. Baldwin
#96. From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#97. Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger
-Septimus Heap
Angie Sage
#98. Answered his telephone himself if he happened to be at hand when it signalled because each call offered good odds that he would be justified in being gratifyingly rude to some stranger for daring to invade his privacy without cause - "cause" by Harshaw's definition, not by the stranger's.
Robert A. Heinlein
#99. An enemy, in Karhide, is not a stranger, an invader. The stranger who comes unknown is a guest. Your enemy is your neighbor.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#100. As the stranger came closer, Dud understood everything and welcomed it, and when the pain came, it was as sweet as silver, as green as still water at dark fathoms.
Stephen King
