Stranger Quotes - page 3

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me." (Plutarch)
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it. View quote
H. L. Mencken
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. You have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child and he will be wonderful again. View quote
Jill Eikenberry
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian. - Number VIII. View quote
Denis Diderot
Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. View quote
Ayelet Waldman
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But once in a while that backfires and you're suddenly reading something that has a bent on it that you didn't feel was in the least bit a part of the conversation that you thought you were having. Then you get overly protective and say very little and then you come out of the hole again. View quote
Gillian Anderson
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul. (Anzia Yezierska)
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. View quote
Lord Byron
Truth is stranger than fiction - to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. View quote
Mark Twain
Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of "what if” when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage. View quote
Stefan Zweig
Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger. View quote
Stefan Zweig
Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. View quote
Markus Zusak
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. View quote
Melody Beattie
I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help. (Ted Dekker)
I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it. View quote
Philip K. Dick
And a soul if it is to know itself must look into its own soul: the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating. View quote
Greg Cox
They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew. View quote
Deb Caletti