Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1112 authors

Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father, nor mother, nor… — Charles Baudelaire
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion… — Robert A. Heinlein
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to… — Henri Nouwen
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded… — Neil Gaiman
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into… — Charles de Lint
When youâ€™re as charming and physically attractive as myself, itâ€™s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, thatâ€™s… — John Green
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily… — Thomas Mann
Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your… — Suzanne Collins
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without… — Jared Diamond
I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and… — George R. R. Martin
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork.… — Tennessee Williams
All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever… — Wendelin Van Draanen
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone… — Michele Jaffe
Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up… — Walter Isaacson
there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love. — Chuck Palahniuk
There's an opposite to dÃ©jÃ vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but… — Chuck Palahniuk
The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair. — David Sedaris
Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers. — Corey Taylor
History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of… — Michelle Sagara

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