You Become A Stranger Quotes

#1. Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Lucien Bourjeily

#2. When you're a stranger to people you care about, you become a stranger to yourself.

Marie Rutkoski

#3. Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Mark Twain

#4. The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

John W. Gardner

#5. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world, one that doesn't include me anymore ...

Lois Lowry

#7. The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity.

Jurgen Moltmann

#8. Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

Margaret Fuller

#9. I am no stranger to working hard. I have done it all my life. As a result I have become accustomed to expecting success in everything I do. Some people call me lucky, but I know better.

Donald Trump

#10. It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Samuel Johnson

#11. Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.

Michel Foucault

#12. Bestfriends become strangers. That's how it is.

Wiz Khalifa

#13. It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Kenneth Oppel

#14. Your apologies hang heavy like the skeleton of the man I once thought I'd marry. I loved you more than I knew what to do with most days. But I do not know you now. And this stranger you've become makes my stomach hurt.

Ari Eastman

#15. Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.

M.F. Moonzajer

#17. If you were still alive, you would perhaps have become a stranger to me. Dead, you are as alive as you are vivid. Your

Edouard Leve

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

Judith Kelman

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. She wanted me to love her... and stranger still, i wanted to love and be loved by her. Death had become romantic again.

J.D. Clair

#23. No one could become stranger than the person you once loved

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. Someday her child would be a stranger to her, and she would be strange to him ... but not as strange as her own mother had become to her.

Stephen King

#25. I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays
were over, I no longer belonged here. I had always been a stranger and, if I
stayed, I would become a stranger to myself as well.

Peter Ackroyd

#26. It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers.

Drake

#27. Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.

Ephrem The Syrian

#28. Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence.

Cecelia Ahern

#29. Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils.

Robert Anton Wilson

#30. I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers.

Nate Parker

#31. But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up

Nas

#32. Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives can become drained of the possibility of forgiveness and kindness - so drained that even one small act of mercy becomes a potent lifelong memory? How do our lives reach these points?

Douglas Coupland

#33. If you create something that is essentially alien to you - as a man - and make a film about woman, the more I can surround myself with woman and combine it with my soul's point of view, the more I become a stranger in a strange land.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#34. You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

Ramana Maharshi

#35. If your not brave enough to talk to a stranger how do you think they will become anything more then a stranger.

Eden Griffith

#36. I wanted to ask her, What does a stranger feel like? Not to be snarky or sarcastic. Because I really wanted to know if there was a difference,vif there was a way to become truly knowable, if there wasn't always something keeping you a stranger, even to the people you weren't strange to at all.

David Levithan

#37. This stranger has become the center of my world. A puzzle I have to solve. My greatest pleasure and my deepest pain.

Nina G. Jones

#38. A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Donald C. Peattie

#39. The first time you share tea with a Balti (Baltistan people), you are a stranger. The second time you share a cup of tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become family".

David Oliver Relin

#40. The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

Heber J. Grant

#41. Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Thomas A Kempis

#42. Do not become a stranger to yourself by blending in with everyone else.

Dodinsky

#43. At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

Bertrand Russell

#44. Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

Thomas Merton