Strangers Quotes · Page 20

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole…

— Alexandra Potter

Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

— Megan Boyle

To you we're friends but, we hardly ever talk now. To me we're strangers with memories

— Anonymous

“Maybe hell is seeing the lost loved painted over the faces of the strangers we meet.”

— Shaun David Hutchinson

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Complete strangers can turn into best friends just the same as best friends can turn into complete strangers.

— Anonymous

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

— Mahathir Mohamad

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

— Tom Lehrer

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and…

— F. Murray Abraham

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

— Alasdair MacIntyre

I am a really passive person to begin with so I have written a lot of pretty crappy songs with strangers because…

— Martie Maguire

Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in…

— Molly Ivins

“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a…

— Joshua Krook

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there…

— Frank Pittman

“...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

Looking at that person who you knew so well, trusting them will all your hope , but realising you are both strangers…

— Dmc Xx

“It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought…

— Sanjo Jendayi

If you look at American medical fiction written by doctors, like 'The House of God' by Samuel Shem and 'The Blood of…

— Jed Mercurio

The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“But though this be so, yet since things present and our fleshly appetite are such near neighbours one to another; and again,…

— John Bunyan

“For the thousandth time he wished he’d just met her. That they were but two strangers traveling together, that such lovely, filthy…

— Sherry Thomas

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was…

— Daphne Kalotay

You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on…

— Melina Marchetta

“Look, then, upon the modern metropolis in which people are packed together and yet remain strangers. In the subway, underground or "tube"…

— Anonymous

“How is it possible for my love to be so deep, When we have yet to even meet?”

— Frances Woodard

“He started to estrange her... And they became strangers Who knew each other's heart, So broken as they drifted apart.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

— Mary Tyler Moore

Sometimes people you think you know can be the strangers you always want to avoid

— Anonymous

“We all have chance meetings with people, even with complete strangers, who interest us at first glance, suddenly, before a word is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We will always see each other around, but we shall remain familar faced strangers.

— Jasmine Laura

I think when 'Perfect Strangers' landed and was so well received, it was a magic moment.

— Jonas Blue

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a…

— Cormac McCarthy

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

— James Boswell

“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”

— Chuck Klosterman

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

— Morrie Schwartz

The hardest part about loving and letting go is going back to being strangers again.

— Anonymous

We were once strangers, then we met & became friends, yet we are strangers again. (Natures way of restoring the balance) Circle…

— Simphiwe Dumisani Ntuli

“In the West they say, 'Never talk to strangers.' In the East they say, 'Always talk to strangers.”

— Ruskin Bond