Quotes About Stranger

The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity.

The shadows of the hills and rocks grew long in the valley bottom. But the guide didn't seem to notice. Sitting very still, his back leaning against the wall of the tomb, he had no sense of the passing day, or hunger, or thirst. He was filled with a different force, from a different time that had made him a stranger to the order of man. Perhaps he was no longer waiting for anything, no longer knew anything, and now he resembled the desert – silence, stillness, absence.

The past never lets us go. It is persistent an unalterable. The future, however, is aloof, a stranger. It stands with its back to us, mute and private, refusing to communicate what it knows or what it sees. Except to some." - Gregor Eisenhorn

In the middle of the house stood the largest, scariest man she'd ever seen. Senhor Finch had been sunshine, but this foreigner was a night storm. He seemed to fill the house like a dark cloud. Too big, too strong, his gaze too sharp on her. And as she turned to flee, he thundered, "Stop!" And the next second, the man had her arm in his grip.

I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

This woman is a stranger, and your wives will surely kill her because of that alone.

You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided, categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of your child you still could in what he had become. Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?

Here's what I hadn't realized : the mother you haven't seen for almost 36 years isn't your mother. She is a stranger. Sharing DNA does not make you fast friends. This was not a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

This virtual stranger knew me better than anyone else in Africa. He knew me better than I knew myself. What I was really researching was not how elephants deal with loss but how humans can't.

Trapped in every stranger is a hidden friend.

One way or another, no matter which theory of our journey is correct, it's myself I address; to whom I rehearse as to a stranger our history and condition, and will disclose my secret hope though I sink for it.

so visibly shaken by some recent loss of principle that it would have been noticed by a stranger across the aisle

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I met you as a stranger. Took you as a friend. I hope we meet in Heaven. Where friendship never ends.

If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

It was too hard to understand marrying someone I didn't know. When you don't like someone, if he touches you, it's harder than anything.

It gave me a queer feeling. Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person ? some stranger ? had gone to the trouble of marking my name on this envelope.

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby with no regrets and I don't mind saying it's a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger. And how in the world can the words that I said send somebody so over the edge that they'd write me a letter saying that I better shut up and sing or my life will be over?

When we reached the sidewalk, a lovely teen-age girl wearing pink eyelashes asked me for my autograph. I don't know who you are, she said, but I'm sure you must be somebody.

He comes floating down out of the endless pale, struck simultaneously by the beauty of the earth and a need to ask forgiveness. He is a stranger, in a mask, falling.

Now the truth is, I felt rather unaccountably towards the beautiful stranger. I did feel, as she said, "drawn towards her," but there was also something of repulsion. In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed. She interested and won me; she was so beautiful and so indescribably engaging.