278 Quotes About Strangers

It was a mystery to Roger how someone he knew so well could be such an impervious, impenetrable stranger.

Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers.Not to get to know one another,not to get close enough to damage the heartmade older by each new encounter.

He turned to her and said, “About time,” when the train finally creaked in, with the familiarity strangers adopt with each other after sharing in the disappointment of a public service.

I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

In the bathroom, I studied my body, trying to see what he had seen. My hipbones were more prominent than I remembered, probably from all the days of being unable to eat after discovering Jonathan’s betrayal. My thinness suddenly angered me. Why had I punished myself when it had been him that had been at fault? I should have pampered myself, nurtured my soul with my favourite foods and wine and spent time with friends instead of languishing at home and drowning myself in work.

For here it was now, as clear as it had ever been. And, worst of all, he was aware of an impulse to tell Bruno everything, the stranger on the train who would listen, commiserate, and forget. The idea of telling Bruno began to comfort him. Bruno was not the ordinary stranger on the train by any means. He was cruel and corrupt enough himself to appreciate a story like that of his first love.

Whenever there's something I don't like about a stranger, I try to imagine that someone out there loves them, and it puts them in a different light.

أحب القطارات و الأماكن العامة فقط لامتلائها بالغرباء المريحين الذين لا يطلبون شئ و لا ينتظرون منى اكثر من صمتى