Stranger Quotes - Page 28

• Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intellectual, Laziness, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin

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• In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

  J. M. Coetzee

  Yield, Voice, Giving

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

  Pico Iyer

  Writing, Anomalies, Letters

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• You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

  Truman Capote

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.10, Vintage

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• I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.

  Che Guevara

  Adventure, Wind, Would Be

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.

  Robert Cormier

  Beach, Sadness, Leaving

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• There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Sunshine, Simple, Long

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.206

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• Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Reflection, Mirrors

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• Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

  Charles de Lint

  Interesting, Pieces, Surprise

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• You can get what you want. Never sell out. Don't break. Don't weaken. Don't let the kindness of strangers be your salvation, for it is no salvation at all. Unless you sleep alone, you sleep with the enemy. Never come out of the storm. On the other hand, maybe you should. You don't have what it takes to go the hard way. Come out of the cold and sit by the fire. Let them warm you with the smiles and promise of friendship's fortune. Lose your edge. A soft body and chained mind suit you. Chances are you don't have what it takes to walk the frozen trail. Stay home and relax.

  Henry Rollins

  Kindness, Sleep, Home

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• Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sleep, Mets, Havens

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Skin Trade: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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• When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

  Kiran Desai

  Father, Crow, Rooftops

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014

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• 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.

  Richard Bach

  Marriage, Land, Two

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• How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

  David Levithan

  Giving, Trying, Way

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.17, Egmont UK

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• She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Names, Lasts, Wanted

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.273, Anchor

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• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

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• You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Thinking, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

  Derrick Bell

  Self, Mentor, May

  "Ethical Ambition".

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• Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wake Up, Dear

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.4, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

  Sarah MacLean

  Laughter, Trying, Strange

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• 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.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Boys, Giving

  Louisa May Alcott, Barbara Steadman (1997). “Little Women Coloring Book”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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

  June Jordan

  Learning To Love

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• A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

  Neal Shusterman

  Dna, Collections, Trapped

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.155, Penguin

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• If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Cities, Fetch, Tongue

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• For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Proud, Majesty

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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