The Strangers Quotes

#1. Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Julian Baggini

#2. Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is life wrapped in cotton wool.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

Max Muller

#4. It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

#5. At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there.

Angela Carter

#6. Wars about trifles are always bitter, especially among neighbours. When the differences are great, and the parties comparative strangers, men quarrel with courtesy. What combatants are ever so eager as two brothers?

Anthony Trollope

#7. Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

M.E. Kerr

#8. This was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Janet Fitch

#9. There is not, beneath the sky, an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted the mother that bore me, into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world.

Frederick Douglass

#10. The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.

Bell Hooks

#11. We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.

Colin Salmon

#12. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Shirley Maclaine

#13. Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#14. Strangers will show you the way

But a true friend will escort you,

to your destination.

1st November, 2006

Tushar Mangl

#15. I can be human to strangers and coworkers, just not to the people who actually care about me.

Sara Zarr

#16. Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

Mike Birbiglia

#17. There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

Moby

#18. Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves
so how can we know anyone else?

Sydney J. Harris

#19. The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Noel Redding

#20. Those tormented by the pain of anger, Never know tranquillity of mind - Strangers they will be to every pleasure; They will neither sleep nor feel secure.

Santideva

#21. I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Gertrude Stein

#22. Something inside me shuts down and I'm too numb to feel anything. It's like watching complete strangers in another Hunger Games. But I do notice they omit the part where I covered her in flowers.
Right. Because even that smacks of rebellion.

Suzanne Collins

#23. At a time when everything seems so out of control and the people you've elected are bogus and there's so much random violence and hatred, it fills you with such hope and admiration to even be part for a short time in a community where people have connected to strangers to try to put out a hand.

Susan Sarandon

#24. Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

Pat Conroy

#25. It's not hard to connect with the music on an emotional level and get inside the songs. It's odd, very vulnerable, and slightly embarrassing to be standing and singing and playing music in front of a bunch of strangers.

Matt Berninger

#26. It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.

Chuck Palahniuk

#27. The politeness was unbearable. They avoided touching each other, careful as strangers on a train ... A family can go on for years without the love that once bound it together, like a lovely old wall that stays standing long after rain has crumbled the mortar.

Kathleen Winter

#28. I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#29. America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.

Mike Barnicle

#30. Don't talk to strangers? Well, I figure he will always be a stranger unless I speak to him. Where is the logic in such a rule?

Penelope Fletcher

#31. Catching up on pictures of your good friend's kids ahead of a visit across the country to see her is a great way to deepen your time together. Following near-strangers can leave us feeling detached and lonely.

Michelle Gielan

#32. It takes us away from the world of strangers
To a new world of laughter
With time the whirled churning deep inside
And why does the smile fades, as age passes?

Dr. Chitra Navada

#33. Mackenzie flinched. Struggling to breathe, she stood up and walked over to the table.

Yawatta Hosby

#34. Fifty years from now, strangers discovering this album at some parking-lot flea market would glance at us and flip the page, not even interested enough to wonder who we'd been.

Anne Tyler

#35. One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

Lewis Tappan

#36. Even Juan laughed then. Everyone laughed. And suddenly the bus was not full of strangers. Some chemical association was formed. Norma laughed hysterically. All the tension of the morning came out in her laughter.

John Steinbeck

#37. Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#38. I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

Melissa Etheridge

#39. I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

Rodney Dangerfield

#40. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.

Noorilhuda

#41. You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family.

Laura McHugh

#42. You will find glimpses of my friends, my family, and strangers off the street in everything I write, because I steal from life and then put it in a blender.

Catherine Cruzan

#43. Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why the hell he's laughin) and immediately you changed your expression to serious.

Khaled Besrour

#44. Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

Demetri Martin

#45. Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.

Aeriel Miranda

#46. Most of the strangers we fall in love with seem to act as strangers rather than being strangers.

M.F. Moonzajer

#47. The day comes in slowly to those who are ill. The night has separated them from the sleepers, who return to them like strangers from a distant land, full of clumsy preparations for the living, the earth itself creaking towards the light.

Elizabeth Taylor

#48. It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

Vanna Bonta

#49. Smiling is a kind of mouth yoga. When we smile, it releases the tension in our face. Others notice it, even strangers, and are likely to smile back. By smiling, we initiate a wonderful chain reaction, touching the joy in anyone we encounter. A smile is an ambassador of goodwill.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#50. But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Hesiod

#51. Two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal
become strangers.
perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

Warsan Shire

#52. I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Mary Schmich

#53. It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

Seneca The Younger

#54. All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

John Howe

#55. The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#56. Earth to Beatrix: This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store. When

Jenn Bennett

#57. If the observation were made to you that "Strangers become intimate, and as intimacy grows they lower their guards and less mind their manners until errors are made, which decreases intimacy until estrangement exceeds that which existed before the strangers ever met," would you be inclined to agree?

Padgett Powell

#58. Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

Alan Huffman

#59. That's where the public like their artists - exposed, trousers down, arse up, doing a long stretch among serial killers, and shitting in front of strangers. That'll teach 'em to think their talent makes them better than mediocre no-brain tax-paying wage slaves like us.

Hanif Kureishi

#60. A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.

Adam Weishaupt

#61. It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed and strangled by strangers. These things happen. Even so, I shall be ahead because of trusting the beach, the night and strangers.

Janet Reno

#62. While I'm not an expect in psychology, I'm of the opinion that anyone - even strangers - can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing.

Nicholas Sparks

#63. Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers. I wrote this book in

Atul Gawande

#64. Strangers don't see through the cracks as easily as people who know you.

Doug Cooper

#65. How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

Harvey Fierstein

#66. What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I don't know where you came from
And I don't know where you've gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn

Ben Harper

#67. Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

Gene Stratton-Porter

#68. The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Richard Powers

#69. For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.

Alex Pareene

#70. The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.

Jim Gaffigan

#71. Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in his garden. But if they're strangers to us, what are we to them? (26)

Michael Greenberg

#72. Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

Lisa Unger

#73. Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

Edward Hirsch

#74. When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

Oscar Levant

#75. Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Nouriel Roubini

#76. It watched the strangers with not-eyes. A dead view of the world created by memory and lifeglow.

J. Cameron McClain

#77. The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

Lee Hyeon-seo

#78. Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama

#79. Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.

Donna Lynn Hope

#80. Hey, stranger, he says as I climb into the passenger seat, in a voice like I'm not one at all.

Katie Cotugno

#81. We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.

Thucydides

#82. Kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea. There is risk in helping others. The irony was that by forcing us to be good citizens, the state made accusers and informers of us all.

Hyeonseo Lee

#83. Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

Judith Thurman

#84. I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Rita Dove

#85. [On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

Mary McGrory

#86. Her once twinkling green eyes set deep into the pale features looked as if they were the only ghastly crystal barriers between strangers and her soul.

Paullina Simons

#87. I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Patricia Highsmith

#88. I might reinvent myself to strangers, but to this day, as far as my family is concerned, I'm still the one most likely to set your house on fire.

David Sedaris

#89. Men would make love with any number of women ... even total strangers, while females were selective. They were catering to the demands of one small egg. While males had millions of frantic sperms screaming: "Let us out, let us out!".

Woody Allen

#90. The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.

Rebecca Solnit

#91. I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Rachael Yamagata

#92. I'm made mute by the virtue of decision
And I choose most of your life goes on without me
Oh the fear I've known
That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own
All I've sown was a song
But maybe I was wrong

Emily Saliers

#93. I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

Aaron Sorkin

#94. I put my cell phone in my back pocket (a habit that has destroyed two phones so far) and tried to blank my face. It wouldn't help with the werewolves, who would be able to smell my distress, but at least I wouldn't have complete strangers stop and ask me what was wrong.

Patricia Briggs

#95. She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day.

Kate Tempest

#96. At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Soren Kierkegaard

#97. It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

Sheryl Lee

#98. The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#99. An actor in a playwright's hide," he said sadly. "I'll never not be vain." "Oh, well. It's you," she said. "You're desperate for the love of strangers. To be seen." "You see me," he said, and he heard the echo with his thoughts a minute before and was pleased. "I do," she said. "Now.

Lauren Groff

#100. When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others
using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

Charlotte Lamb