Best 366 quotes in «stranger quotes» category

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

It's unlikely I'll ever submit to a psychiatrist's couch. I don't want some stranger prowling around through my psyche, monkeying with my id. I don't need an analyst to tell me that I have never had any sense of security. Who has?

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

I've never been comfortable photographing people I know, myself included. I guess I prefer the mystery of strangers.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

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

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it’s Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger’s face into a life.

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

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

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz." And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.

Naked in front of strangers? I can barely be naked in front of my lovers; in front of myself.

My heart is ripped open, shredded, leaking blood. I can't let him leave like this. We've been through to much to turn into strangers.

Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

Never take candy from strangers.

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers