Quote by Teju Cole Download Open image ““This is what it is to be a stranger: when you leave, there is no void.”” — Teju Cole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Now I was someone else. We knew each other in a way we no longer were and never would be again. Being a stranger… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
“Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Here on the road with nothing but darkness around me, I tell a stranger how terrible I am.” — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“sometimes its good to be a stranger for the person who never gave importance to you.. and never even tried to understand you..” — KATYAYANI KUMARI Copy Share Image
“Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.” — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.” — Pitigrilli Copy Share Image
“If you are gone then I will welcome nonexistence. There will be nothing left for me to live for.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“You don't need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten...Generations rushed through the eye of the needle, and I, one of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
