Contemporary Quote by Madame de Stael

“Most of the strangers we fall in love with seem to act as strangers rather than being strangers.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Je serais reconnaissant a toute personne ayant compris cette demonstration de me l'expliquer.

— Pierre Deligne

“Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've…

— Phil Jourdan

Strangers meet again.

— Cleo

“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will…

— Pierre De Fermat

We were strangers when we met and we were strangers when you left.

— Anonymous

“Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.”

— Namsoon Kang

Strangers are friends whom we yet to meet and our foes are nobody but strangers.

— Vikrant Parsai

“As for other acquaintances, there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away…

— George Eliot

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less…

— Georg Simmel

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

— Jane Austen