278 Quotes About Strangers

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.

Later, when all the air in the new life had become like it can be in a room where the windows are broken out and all the familiar faces have strangely drained into themselves, like water into worn out sand, Nina Alexandrovna suddenly realized that now it was impossible, forbidden, and foolish to be happy for someone else.

Two people being strangers can be the best relationship. They tend to value what they do for each other more and they can leave when they think they are being taken for granted.

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.

The two half sisters, strangers to each other, sat at the breakfast counter looking out at the unhindered view of the hills.

Lies surround me. They are the strangers that linger under the façade of a soft whispered kiss. Ever so lovingly muddled in a single breath, fleeting, yet cemented in the heart. It is difficult to ignore them. They exist everywhere in all shapes and emotions. They drive our world, and our thoughts.

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

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known.

When Derek hesitated, Chloe said, "If you leave, either I go with you and take the same risk or stay here, with strangers. Without you." He scowled at her. "Yes, it's a low blow," she said. "But I'll use whatever works right now."