The Stranger Quotes

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

Met you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

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.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

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.

The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.

Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

There is no safety this side of the grave

Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God.

There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.

If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

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.

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Ants and savages put strangers to death.

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.

I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

Stranger in a strange country.

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

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

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.