Stranger Quotes - Page 3

• A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.

  Stephen Elliott

  Reflection, Light, Years

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

  Billy Sunday

  Prayer, Revival In America, Ifs

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -

  Deb Caletti

  Strong, Determination, Powerful

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• Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

  Charles Dickens

  Words Of Wisdom, Retiring, Asks

  'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (1870) ch. 4

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• The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

  Homer

  Men, Cities, Kind

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• Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

  Marijane Meaker

  Long, Long Time

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• Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

  Albert Camus

  Mother, Home, Mean

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

  Albert Camus

  Doors, Four, Unhappiness

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

  Taylor Swift

  Fans, Saying Hello, Meetings

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• There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Home, Differences

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• I like doing horror films. I think it's helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry for so long and do ridiculous things in front of strangers, you sort of break down any barriers, you can't be embarrassed.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, Men, Elude Us

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• there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

  Neil Strauss

  Hurt, Way, Ignored

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.282, Canongate Books

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• Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

  Albert Camus

  Said, No Hope, Remains

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.117, Vintage

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• Reading has always brought me pure joy. I read to encounter new worlds and new ways of looking at the world. I read to enlarge my horizons, to gain wisdom, to experience beauty, to understand myself better, and for the pure wonderment of it all. I read and marvel over how writers use language in ways I never thought of. I read for company, and for escape. Because I am incurably interested in the lives of other people, both friends and strangers, I read to meet myriad folks and enter their lives- for me, a way of vanquishing the “otherness” we all experience.

  Nancy Pearl

  Reading, People, Joy

  Nancy Pearl (2009). “Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason”, p.9, Sasquatch Books

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• He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

  Saadi

  Justice, Diversity, Deals

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• I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Order, Forget You, Forget

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• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Native American, Medicine

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• [...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

  Jim Morrison

  Risk, Fusion, Losing

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• So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

  Patti Smith

  Sleep, Eye, Light

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.283, A&C Black

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• ...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

  Frederick Douglass

  Grateful, Heart, Meat

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself, Critical Edition”, p.83, Yale University Press

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• …for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Christian, Jesus

  A. A. Attanasio, Jeff Bigman (2011). “The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot, Volume One”, p.113, A. A. Attanasio

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• Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

  Ani DiFranco

  Happy Life, Flirting, Looks

  Song: The Million You Never Made

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• Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Innovation, Public Speaking, Campus

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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