The Stranger Quotes

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

Never floss with a stranger.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

People just do the strangest things when they believe they're entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity, and its influence is direct.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

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

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

Fact is stranger than fiction.

A stranger stabs you in the front; a friend stabs you in the back; a boyfriend stabs you in the heart, but best friends only poke each other with straws