Strangers Quotes

There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.

~ R.a. Mathis

It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are all strangers to ourselves, caught up in the monotony of daily life, stuck in our routines, never really stopping to think about what will happen to us if we fall off track.

~ Shannon Mullen

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

~ Simon Beckett

But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

~ Kate Jacobs

I was feeling sorry for myself and immediately assumed her life was going better than mine. Ridiculous, of course—no one can know what a stranger’s life is like. Often we don’t even know what a loved one’s life is like. We all keep so many things to ourselves.

~ Meredith Marple

If you aren’t paranoid before you arrive in this city, give it a few weeks and you will soon notice it creeping in, dripping into your subconscious like a leaky tap. The trick is not to give a flying fuck what anyone thinks about you, and if you are in the right frame of mind this can be an easy trick to perform but if not you’ll soon notice that for a city full of people who do a great Stevie Wonder impersonation when it comes to the homeless and beggars and casual violence towards others, wearing the wrong kind of shoes or a cheap suit brings out a sneering, hateful attitude that can have weaker minded individuals locked in their houses for weeks before harassing their doctors for prescriptions of Prozac and Beta blockers just to make it out the front door.

~ Garry Crystal

What is inspiration in strangers is jealousy in kinsmen.

~ Raheel Farooq

Talking to strangers is very panic fear, to be fearless and good communicator in long term try talking to strangers with courage like you already know them.

~ Amit Kalantri

I think it's very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don't know.

~ Helen Mccrory

In a sea of strangers,you've longed to know me.Your life spent sailingto my shores.

~ Lang Leav

We are relatives at the village and yet we become strangers in the city

~ Thabo Katlholo

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

~ Chuck Klosterman

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

~ Alexandra Potter

Anyway, I think Florence and I noticed each other before the local train screeched to a halt at the 110th Street station, because as I boarded it felt as though we were supposed to step into the same car, and hold onto the same moist metal bar. My wishful hunch now seems confirmed by the way she's reading her Time magazine article next to me.

~ Zack Love

Attraction is a funny thing. Women can be beautiful and still do nothing for me. They can be stereotypically sexy and I will still pass them over. They can look innocent and it won’t interest me, have a sassy attitude and I’ll be looking elsewhere. I get bored easily and am as fickle as April weather.

~ Holly Stone

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.

~ Vann Chow

The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

~ Tablo

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other.

~ Sherman Alexie

In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.

~ Joshua Krook

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

~ Bill Simmons

A city like London is sociable in a sense that there are people gathering in bars and restaurants, concerts and lectures. Yet you can partake of all these experiences and never say hello to anyone new. And one of the things that all religions do is take groups of strangers into a space and say it is OK to talk to each other.

~ Alain De Botton

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

~ Hortense Odlum

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

~ Douglas William Jerrold

A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.

~ Mother Angelica

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

~ Yo-Yo Ma

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

~ Alan King

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

~ James Altucher

I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.

~ Johnny Depp

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

~ Victor Hugo

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

~ Nelson Mandela

There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.

~ William Butler Yeats

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

~ Sharon Horgan

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

~ Aisha Tyler