The Stranger Quotes

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

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.

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

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

... the stranger is not a threat but an opportunity to grow in my view of reality, to grow in my own sense of possibility

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

Once best friends now strangers with memories.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

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.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul

Never take candy from strangers.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.