The Stranger Quotes

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.

It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful.

I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the sky. I replied that I had no idea, as I was a stranger there myself.

How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.

Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher.

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

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

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

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.

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?

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

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

I hate Twitter. I think it's disgusting. It's ridiculous that you as a stranger can type something to me, and I see it. Technology has gone too far.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it.

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.