Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1112 authors

Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so… — John O'Donohue
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another; Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart. But should yuan fen be absent between… — Adeline Yen Mah
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. — Ann Brashares
I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a… — George Orwell
That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of… — Paul Auster
instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves,… — Sarah Dessen
I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that… — Albert Camus
There was some women in a cafÃ© the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her… — Karl Pilkington
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… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.… — Saul Williams
I do desire we may be better strangers. — William Shakespeare
I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the… — John Christopher
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the… — John Clare
I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme… — John Waters
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the… — Parker J. Palmer
Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us… — Azar Nafisi
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing… — Gregory Galloway
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered. — Nancy Mitford
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies. — John Christopher

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