Quotes About Stranger

Delight, unfortunately, doesn't last. It's like the smile from a beautiful stranger in a stairwell — it's fleeting. It cannot be otherwise — recognition is not an extended process.

Having some form of structure to process and manage grief collectively surely helps: as someone put it to me, grief is like a landscape without a map. Another suggested that grief makes you a stranger to yourself.

As for asking favors or handouts, no.' But you'll take them from a stranger.' He looked me straight in the eye. 'The stranger can keep going and pretend not to hear.

Each of us has always hoped that a stranger would come who would scatter holy water on the image of the other and lay it for ever

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Good work,' he said, and went out the door. What work ? We never saw him before. There was no door.

I don't know you. That's the problem.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

But when I heard your response, while I applauded in my heart that things had gone well, I wondered why I had the painful feeling that I had been betrayed. It was all right since it was I, but what if it had been some complete stranger? Once you had hesitated, you acquiesced.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange man." I'm your strange man.

A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.

A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet