Stranger Quotes - Page 4

• Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Night, Definitions, Life Is

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• Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Trust, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Saint Patrick, Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (1885*). “The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical”

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• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

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• Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

  Mary Alice

  Life, Happy, People

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• Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jealous, Men, Law

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin”, p.78

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• I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.

  Sarada Devi

  Spiritual, Children, Mind

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• Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

  Krista Tippett

  God, Religious, Compassion

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• 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

  Heart, Hands, America

  "Hungry Hearts and Other Stories" by Anzia Yezierska, ("How I Found America", pt. 3), 1920.

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• Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Who We Are, Hiding

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• I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, People, Normal

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• Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Heart, Reflection

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• Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Writing, Strangers And Friends

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• The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself or some one else, as he chooses. [...] The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. [...] What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire...to the unexpected as it comes along, the stranger as he passes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Love Is

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

  Morrie Schwartz

  Tuesdays With Morrie, Tears, Bigs

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• The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.

  Sebastian Barry

  Summer, Thinking, Years

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• we walk the plank with strangers.

  Sylvia Plath

  Walks

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Pain, Grief, Sadness

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• The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

  Richard North Patterson

  Manhattan, Flaws, Should

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• In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

  Benjamin Franklin

  America, Miscellaneous

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• He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Two, Ephemeral, Emotion

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Of Love and Other Demons”, p.121, Penguin UK

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• Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.

  Sloane Crosley

  Karma, Natural Instinct, Helping

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.79, Portobello Books

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• surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

  Kami Garcia

  Pain, Strange, Made

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• [Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Definitions, Way

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.30, Vintage

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