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We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger
In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.
Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.
We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
Everybody starts out as strangers.
I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life
Strange are the ways of the mind, and stranger is the fuel of emotion.
When you're a stranger to people you care about, you become a stranger to yourself.
Even those we know best are strangers, whom we understand, if we ever do, intermittently.
I am a stranger at a cocktail party.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
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.
So, I'm not strange anymore?" he asks.
"What?"
"You're riding in my car, which must mean I'm not a stranger anymore."
"Actually, the more I'm around you, the stranger you get.
I am a stranger in all countries.
I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.
Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
God is no stranger to strangers or to strange people.
strangers were just people he hadn't become friends with yet.
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
A strange and baffling truth: that the people we're supposed to know best can turn out to be strangers, and that near strangers can feel so much like home.
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
There's stranger sex than sex with strangers.
I should have known that people can sometimes come close enough to discover that they are strangers.
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
Hey, stranger, he says as I climb into the passenger seat, in a voice like I'm not one at all.
Our bodies aren't strangers,' he said, his voice ragged. 'Our spirits aren't strangers'. He held her face in his hands. 'Tell me what part of me is stranger to you and I'll destroy that part of me.'
And she wept to hear his words.
Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend?
Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you?
The Universe is stranger than we imagine!
I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen
To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.
Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.
Every face is new now, every face a stranger's face.
Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life
Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.
I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
There are no more sympathetic souls than strangers. So,
Sometimes, we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.
You are only strange if you change who you are for somebody else, then you are a stranger to yourself.
Saint or stranger, I still recklessly seek you.
Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.
Give me a sea of strangers, and all I'll see is you.
Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.
Strangers are potential friends and potential enemies, but treat them as potential friends.
As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.
People are strange, when you are a stranger ... Faces come out in the rain, When you're strange ...
She was a stranger, but not just any stranger. She was "the stranger". And of course, that was the difference that made everyone's emotions stranger.
Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.
I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it
while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation
takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.
The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.
There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death.
No one could become stranger than the person you once loved
What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.
anonymous mystery
At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.
And no matter how well we think we know people, the fact is we're all strangers in the end.
We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers
The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.
People know they have seen me somewhere, but they don't know where. They think I'm their next-door neighbor.
We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.
Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.
Strangers are endearing because you don't know them yet.
Strange looks everything for a stranger!
Isn't it odd, how strangers come over the threshold and you never know what they might become...
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've spent so long not knowing them.
Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger
I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself.
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.
They always told me not to get in the car with strangers."
"I'm not a stranger. I'm your neighbor." "My strange neighbor.
Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.
We are not strangers in this journey of life ... We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.
I'm just going to pretend that a very good-smelling, incredibly warm stranger is sitting next to me, a harmless stranger.
Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
I have been so alone on this journey, cut off from my past. However hard I try, I will always feel alien and strange. And now I've stumbled on a fellow outsider, one who speaks my language without saying a word.
I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.
A stranger to the fear of God is a stranger to the living God Himself.
Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.
She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.
My dad taught me never to talk to strangers," she said lightly.
"We're all strangers in the beginning."
"Then what are we in the end?"
"We'll have to see when we get there.
You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.