Stranger Quotes - page 2

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. View quote
Jean Baudrillard
Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodg'd in this fair world appear, Strange all and new to me; But that they mine should be who nothing was, That strangest is of all; yet brought to pass. View quote
Thomas Traherne
Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. View quote
John Mayer
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks. View quote
David Gemmell
I seek the meaning of existence." said the stranger. "You are of course, assuming." said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. View quote
George Washington
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
There's an opposite to dj vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar. (Chuck Palahniuk)
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I want to be your stranger across a crowded room. View quote
Jeffrey Archer
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow. View quote
Thomas Gray
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan. View quote
Greg Egan
Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. View quote
John Hodgman
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. View quote
Enoch Powell
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. View quote
A. E. Housman
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow. View quote
David Hume
A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return. (Charles Lamb)
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. View quote
Samuel Beckett
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees. View quote
Bob Dylan