The Stranger Quotes

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

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. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

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

One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

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.

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

I'm no stranger to criticism. You're never going to be good enough, or just the right thing in everybody's eyes.

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.

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

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.

Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

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.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

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

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Youth is stranger than fiction.