Stranger Quotes

“He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“The stranger thought it might be God himself had forgotten much from our pasts, events far distant, events of the same day. And if a thing is not in God’s mind, then what chance of it remaining in those of mortal men?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Unclaimed

To make love with a stranger is the best.
There is no riddle and there is no test. –

To lie and love, not aching to make sense
Of this night in the mesh of reference.

To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day,
And understand, as only strangers may.

To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart
Preferring neither to prolong nor part.

To rest within the unknown arms and know
That this is all there is; that this is so.”
― Vikram Seth

“It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he make a fool of me wreck my image of myself invade me destroy me change me? Yes, that he will. There's the terrible thing: the strangeness of the stranger.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters

“A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.”
― Erin Merryn, Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness

“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried.”
― Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital

“Attraction is a funny thing. Women can be beautiful and still do nothing for me. They can be stereotypically sexy and I will still pass them over. They can look innocent and it won’t interest me, have a sassy attitude and I’ll be looking elsewhere. I get bored easily and am as fickle as April weather.”
― Holly Stone, Taken by a Stranger

“Even in these first days together, it is very clear that this feeling of mine for the stranger has trumped all the other adventures in my life. It has shuffled everything and everyone else I thought I was moving toward or away from.”
― Marlena De Blasi, A Thousand Days in Venice

“Patinka būti vienam vakaro prieblandoje, nepažintam gatvėje, kelionėje, žmonių minioje, prie knygos, darbuojantis su įrankiais, ko nors laukiant ar ką nors stebint.”
― Marcelijus Martinaitis, Mes gyvenome. Biografiniai užrašai

“The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.”
― Colin Greenland, The Space Opera Renaissance

“Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“It's a good fact to meet a stranger,but unfortunate when they have bad intentions in meeting you after the fact. Just know you have been loyal from the beginning.”
― Touaxia Vang

“Close People Are That Closer, As They Can Share Everything With A Stranger But Not To The Really Closed Ones.”
― Jay Patel

“In the bathroom, I studied my body, trying to see what he had seen. My hipbones were more prominent than I remembered, probably from all the days of being unable to eat after discovering Jonathan’s betrayal. My thinness suddenly angered me. Why had I punished myself when it had been him that had been at fault? I should have pampered myself, nurtured my soul with my favourite foods and wine and spent time with friends instead of languishing at home and drowning myself in work.”
― Holly Stone, Taken by a Stranger

“Why do we believe one stranger and not another?”
― Todd Strasser, Wish You Were Dead

“There is no other place on this earth where I feel such a strong sense of being a stranger than in my historic homeland.”
― Suad Amiry, Golda Slept Here

“It was making him feel like a stranger.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.”
― Charlotte Lamb, Night Music

“I had a dream about you… but I don’t know you…who are you?”
― Rodney Jenkins, Dreaming is for lovers

“I had a dream about you. I know, I know, I have never met you, but I’m pretty sure I had a dream about you. I had a dream about someone I didn’t know, so it may as well be you.”
― Ashley Kennett, Dreaming is for lovers

“It's a good fact to meet a stranger,but unfortunate when they have bad intentions in meeting you after the fact. Just know you have been a loyal from the beginning.”
― Touaxia Vang

“We shall forever be battling our scars, healing ourselves from the deep scars of childhood, to the awkward scars of adolescence, the hard scars of adulthood and scars of frail old age. In the answering spark in another's eyes, the cosy laughter of friends, and the circle of family, we rush to heal, heal our scars. In the eyes of a complete stranger, we finally find our balm until they are a stranger no more, and then we scar again, only to bleed again.”
― Srividya Srinivasan

“That stranger handed me a letter written in my beloved's tears. I opened it, and the letters faded away just like his love for me.”
― Natalya Vorobyova

“Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.”
― Amanda McCabe, Running from Scandal

“Se um turista chega a um mundo estranho, onde nem o aspecto exterior, nem a língua, nem os costumes lhe conseguem despertar reminiscências, esse mundo exerce sobre ele um encanto delicioso. Não surge tudo isso que se oferece nos seus olhos - paisagem, costumes e fala - para o seu particular deleite? Não se lhe oferecem todas as características pitorescas para que ele se divirta e tire fotografias? Mas se o mesmo turista se vê, de repente, forçado a permanecer nesse mundo estranho para ganhar o seu pão, o pitoresco torna-se-lhe ambiente quotidiano, os habitantes passam a ser os seus vizinhos, amigos e inimigos e o caso muda inteiramente de figura. O que lhe parecera insólito e exótico ergue-se qual muro espesso entre ele e tudo o que constitui a sua vida, e por muito tempo não passa dum homem à parte, um observador sempre prestes a comparar com este mundo o seu de outrora: um comparsa que, não chegando a pisar o palco, permanece nos bastidores. Por isso o turista é para o estrangeiro domiciliado o que o campista é para um homem que se instalou, de vez, numa cabana.”
― Ilse Losa, Sob Céus Estranhos

“ All Ways listen to strangers; They may tell you when a spider is on your shoulder." donnie harold harris”
― donnie harold harris

“Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya