Quotes about stranger
Clare McNally - Ghost House
Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She sank to her knees and began to cry in her terror. She wanted Gary.She suddenly felt strong arms around her. She bent her head to bury it in Gary's shoulder, trembling in the darkness.Whimpering like a small animal in a trap, she pushed herself closer to him and said in a choked voice, "I'm so frightened!""I know, my love," the voice said. "I'm so sorry you were hurt."She felt h
Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business.Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk?He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles.And yet this person is the hero of his own life story.He is the love of someone’s life.And what he can do may change the
Rebecca McNutt - Three Little Ghostly Operatives
Um, thanks,” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?”“I’m Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf,” she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached.“Van Der Graaf?” Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn’t want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but… Van Der Graaf?“What are you laughing at?” Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. “I like my name. If you’re g
Henri J.M. Nouwen - Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.
Sorin Cerin - Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Search for the stranger inside you, forgotten even by your death.
Antoni Omeihe -
If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!
Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet
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.
Anthony T. Hincks -
A stranger is just a friend waiting to be let in.
Anthony T. Hincks -
A friend of mine gave me a rainbow and it made me happy. So, I in turn, gave it to a complete stranger and then it made both of us smile.
Debasish Mridha M.D. -
A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya -
Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one’s nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!
Anne Carson - Irony and God
Her marble tears run down her marble face.A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.Who has no words to say.Whose shadow mind is burningas he sits watching her handsand thinks how rare!to see a Romantalkwith no gestures at all.
Phindiwe Nkosi - Behind the Hospital
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.
Anthony T. Hincks -
The world's not getting any stranger.We are!
Deyth Banger -
World is getting stranger and stranger... I think there is interesting perspective in the series "Falling Water".
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
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?
Edmund White - Our Young Man
Had he already inspired a passion in some stranger’s heart?
Anthony T. Hincks -
In the mirror we see a stranger,Not the person we were born to be,For we are all pretending,Just for everyone to see.
J.D. Stroube - Caged by Damnation
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.
Anthony T.Hincks -
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
Alexandra Katehakis - Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye contact and without condition. This is not the opportunistic sizing-up of sexual cruising; instead, it’s the felt recognition of the divinity and humanity in another individual.
Akshay Vasu -
And she called him a stranger. Whose name still echoed in her mind like a war cry. Who had seen each bit of her naked soul and knew how scarred her soul is. Whose reflection still stood, smiling at her every time she stood in front of the mirror.
Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction: The Shooting Script
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes.
Adele Rose - Awakening
Although he was undeniably handsome, at the end of the day, he was still some random stranger, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, wanted to talk to me and who knew my name. The term ‘Stranger Danger’ flashed before my eyes! Therefore, no matter how hot he was, I wasn’t going to let my guard down…yet.
Patti LuPone -
Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Sidney Sheldon - A Stranger In The Mirror
They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.
Sidney Sheldon - A Stranger In The Mirror
If you would seek to find yourselflook not in the mirrorfor there is but a shadow there'A stranger....SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH
Robert Ludlum - The Matlock Paper
Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.
Natalya Vorobyova -
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.
Mary Norton - The Borrowers Afield
An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak,” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger—the one who speaks to nobody—warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be
John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.
J. Limbu -
Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain...
M.F. Moonzajer -
You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger.
Ashley Kennett - 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.
Rodney Jenkins - Dreaming is for lovers
I had a dream about you… but I don’t know you…who are you?
M.F. Moonzajer -
I have never believed in supernatural until I fell in love with a stranger that made me do supernatural things.
V.E. Schwab - A Darker Shade of Magic
For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.
Dr. Chitra Navada -
It takes us away from the world of strangersTo a new world of laughter With time the whirled churning deep insideAnd why does the smile fades, as age passes?
Erin Merryn - Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.
Robert Fulghum - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
Eric Hoffer -
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Matthew -
I was a stranger and ye took me in.
Charles Reade -
A stranger's eyes see clearest.
Sorin Cerin - Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
T.S. Eliot - The Rock
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
Deyth Banger -
Nowadays, you need a good excuse to go and to start talking to someone, as they say it... "You Found a stranger, now you are in real danger.
Justin K. McFarlane Beau -
If you do not know you are in danger, you are that danger. You do not know me, but I come in peace; if you think that is strange, then you are the stranger.
Mihail Sebastian - For Two Thousand Years
A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.
Mihail Sebastian - For Two Thousand Years
What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.
Jay Patel -
Close People Are That Closer, As They Can Share Everything With A Stranger But Not To The Really Closed Ones.
John Green - Looking for Alaska
Later, I walked towards the dorm circle beside Alaska. The cicadas hummed their one-note song, just as they had at home in Florida. She turned to me as we made our way through the darkness and said,"When you’re walking at night, do you ever get creeped out and even though it’s silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?”It seemed too secret and personal to admit to a virtual stranger but I told her, “Yeah, totally.”For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered,“Run run r
John Lanchester - Capital
It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually a stranger to the place you lived in. The woman priest with jogging clothes and a BlackBerry gave Mary a glimpse of what life must have been like for her mother as she grew older.
Donnie Harold Harris -
All Ways listen to strangers; They may tell you when a spider is on your shoulder." donnie harold harris
Joan Rivers -
Never floss with a stranger.
Lord Byron -
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Annie Leibovitz -
You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Lord Byron -
For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
Leo Rosten -
Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.
Georg Simmel -
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Khalil Gibran -
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Paul Smith -
A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
Nino Varsimashvili -
Perhaps we all have a face behind a face…Good and the bad, happy and sad, sane and insane. We all have an angel and the stranger and we all have the choice!
Robin Hobb - Fool's Errand
...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.
Aryn Kyle - Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
Doug Cooper - Outside In
I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.
Paul Bowles - The Spider's House
Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.
John Scalzi - Old Man's War
I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.
G.K. Chesterton - The Everlasting Man
The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutch
Amanda McCabe - Running from Scandal
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.
Edith Pattou - East
It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.
Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
Todd Strasser - Wish You Were Dead
Why do we believe one stranger and not another?
Charlotte Lamb - Night Music
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.
Michael Thomas Ford - Suicide Notes
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
Jostein Gaarder - The Solitaire Mystery
A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.
Uzoma Nnadi -
Don't let a stranger that comes to you leave empty handed without food, water, shelter, or word of encouragement. Whether you believe in God or s**t, it's a bad omen when you let a stranger that came to you left empty handed.
K. Weikel - The One-Hundred: Part 2 - The Beneath
You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.
Danielle Esplin - Give It Back
There’s an undeniable thrill about meeting a stranger and spending a few hours together, indulging in each other’s lives. It’s that spurt of saying whatever you want and leaving it behind with someone who’ll never look at you and think of it again.