149 Stranger Quotes for You to Enjoy

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme. Jhumpa Lahiri

Alienation Borders Crossing Poetry Poets Writers Tension Between Beyond Narratives Always Been Exile Encounters Familiar Beginnings Wandering Literature Epic Theme Epic Poetry Stranger Novels Based Basic Assimilation

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain

Truth Truth Is Possibilities Obliged Because Stick Than Fiction Stranger

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Lewis B. Smedes

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. Arthur Schopenhauer

Life Truth Thoughts Man Own Clothes Meal Others Else Someone Only Remains He Taking Putting Like Discarded Read Understands Them Really Stranger Fundamental

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman

Me You Speak Meet Passing Should Stranger Why Desire

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron

Truth Strange Truth Is Always Than Fiction Stranger

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. Mark Twain

Truth Sense Make Than Fiction After Stranger Why

Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner. Edward Everett Hale

Worth Made Naked Prisoner Caring Nineteen Hungry Would Some Had Advance Feeding Welcoming Been Very Clothing Little Centuries Stranger

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman

Life Because Always Than Going Fiction Convincing Stranger

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. Davy Crockett

Me Andrew Total New Name Bow Principles Judgement Expected Jackson Expense Stranger Such A Thing Even Conscience Thing

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer

Loneliness Failure Own House Greater His Than Stranger

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? Gunter Grass

Time Me You Change Strange People Sometimes Alien People Change Think Alienation Later About Seem He Feel Him Am Were His Years Child Person Trying Childhood Happened Decipher Certain Stranger Things

Never judge a stranger by his clothes. Zachary Taylor

Judge Clothes Never His Stranger

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate. Bill Gates

You People Few Filter Enough Those Out Be Careful Something Never Volume Between Message Repetition Very Close Get Sending Few People Done Just Difference Being Legitimate Want Spam Being Done Interested Low Might Stranger Level Things Careful

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. Jean Baudrillard

You Man Woman Stove Nothing TV TV Set Dreaming More Mysterious Himself Talking Another Empty Left Than Room Communicating Planet Stranger Standing Even Her Set

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive. Margaret D. Nadauld

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Andreas Capellanus

Love Love Is House Always Avarice Stranger

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. Edgar Rice Burroughs

Love Nature Strange Love Is Master Human Nature Still Human Stranger

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel

Positive Relation Very Interaction Form Naturally Stranger Specific

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger. Joe Morton

Nothing Color Being Race Race Prejudice Prejudice Stranger

Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman. Maryanne Trump Barry

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