Stranger Quotes

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign. (Ernest Renan)
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. View quote
Karel Čapek
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. View quote
Mark Twain
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. View quote
Arthur Miller
LOVE He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) View quote
Albert Einstein
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels. View quote
Roger Ebert
Never floss with a stranger. View quote
Joan Rivers
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. View quote
John Berger
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. (William Faulkner)
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. View quote
Thomas More
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. View quote
Franklin P. Jones
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? View quote
Walt Whitman
Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor. View quote
David Benioff
I´m a stranger in a strange land. View quote
Carson McCullers
Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger. View quote
Stella Benson
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land. View quote
Harriet Tubman
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, - all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight. (Charlotte Brontë)
For it is said, "You shall strengthen the stranger and the dweller in your midst and live with him," that is to say, strengthen him until he needs no longer fall upon the mercy of the community or be in need. View quote
Maimonides
It's you my love, you who are the stranger. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin