Stranger Quotes
1490 quotes by 1112 authors
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I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
— Mark Haddon
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This is me, remember?" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our…
— Alan Moore
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They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
— Deb Caletti
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I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich…
— A.L. Kennedy
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A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and…
— Robert Muchamore
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Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more…
— Diane Setterfield
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I fear that I will do something to bring harm to those I love," Froi said. "So I follow their rules to ensure that I…
— Melina Marchetta
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The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances…
— Paul Theroux
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Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor…
— Frederick Douglass
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
— Barbara Kingsolver
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What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do…
— Demetri Martin
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And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.
— William Shakespeare
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In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends
— Kobayashi Issa
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We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you…
— Deb Caletti
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They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I…
— Lauren Kate
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed…
— Robert Fulghum
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