Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1064 authors

It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with… — Mary Roach
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face. — Maya Angelou
We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced. — Robert Charles Wilson
What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell… — Margaret Drabble
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her. — Charles Baxter
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us.… — Paulo Coelho
Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee… — Daniel Handler
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm… — C.S. Lewis
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories weâ€™ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.… — Chuck Palahniuk
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a… — Walt Disney
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have… — John Taylor Gatto
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see… — Jane Austen
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces — Janet Fitch
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if… — Lisa Kleypas
Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. — Kay Redfield Jamison
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house… — Philip Larkin
Everybody has a â€˜gripping strangerâ€™ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe itâ€™s the kid in cut-offs… — Douglas Coupland

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