stranger

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
a3dfc45	You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.	love stranger	Truman Capote
90c3eab	A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.	alter chain choice course decision domino fate inspirational life lives monumental reaction stranger world	J.D. Stroube
da5e280	Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.	change freedom friend holy hospitality other space stranger	Henri J.M. Nouwen
9c09eb6	The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.	human pilgrim stranger	G.K. Chesterton
1f87685	The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.	debt noblesse-oblige repay stranger	Robert Fulghum
7ccd24a	"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."	community money questions stranger	T.S. Eliot
d24a683	I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.	bigger bladder empty imagine meet pee stranger universe	John Scalzi
028e532	I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.	estrangement exile imagination stranger visions	Fernando Pessoa
4b72103	If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH	reflection shadow stranger stranger-in-the-mirror youself	Sidney Sheldon
0b6e481	Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.	existence immersion morocco objectivity outsider senses stranger subjectivity truth	Paul Bowles
4a45573	I wasn't scare, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.	stranger	Jack Kerouac
145b941	They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.	lied mirror murder stranger stranger-in-the-mirror young youth	Sidney Sheldon
3bc24d0	It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he make a fool of me wreck my image of myself invade me destroy me change me? Yes, that he will. There's the terrible thing: the strangeness of the stranger.	people strange stranger	Ursula K. Le Guin
e2ba9a3	...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.	cost evaluate home look regret result return stranger think truth	Robin Hobb
2f57ae0	Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.	stranger unfamiliar	Robert Ludlum
a735d96	I am only an egg.	only stranger	Robert A. Heinlein
31df547	A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.	prejudice stranger	John Fowles
f3629a7	"Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. "I like my name. If you're going to be a jerk, then I won't help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care." "...Harsh," said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something 'off' about her, something that Jackson couldn't quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. "Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?" He couldn't resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. "Who else lives here?" he urged. "Me, myself and I," said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression"	comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird	Rebecca McNutt
fb68d84	"Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone." A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody. "What's wrong with her?" I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at. "Oh, don't worry, we're all mad here." I giggle, mostly from nerves. "It's a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land . I definitely think I've fallen into the rabbit hole." "Read what?" Harley asks. "Never mind." All around me, eyes follow my every move. "Look," I say loudly. "I know I look different. But I'm just a person, like you." I hold my head up high, looking them all in the eyes, trying to hold their stares for as long as possible. "You tell 'em," says Harley with another Cheshire grin."	alice-in-wonderland amy-martin cheshire different down-the-rabbit-hole harley introducing mad nerves stranger we-are-all-mad-here	Beth Revis
f2b9624	Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow mind is burning as he sits watching her hands and thinks how rare! to see a Roman talk with no gestures at all.	stranger tears	Anne Carson
1aae4ac	Her face was a stranger's face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.	lukassa stranger tikat	Peter S. Beagle
f5757dc	Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.	empathy end equal equaliser feel shed stranger tear	Mitch Albom

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Truman Capote

90c3eab

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

alter chain choice course decision domino fate inspirational life lives monumental reaction stranger world

J.D. Stroube

da5e280

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

change freedom friend holy hospitality other space stranger

Henri J.M. Nouwen

9c09eb6

The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.

human pilgrim stranger

G.K. Chesterton

1f87685

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

debt noblesse-oblige repay stranger

Robert Fulghum

7ccd24a

"When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?" What will you answer? "We all dwell together To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."

community money questions stranger

T.S. Eliot

d24a683

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

bigger bladder empty imagine meet pee stranger universe

John Scalzi

028e532

I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat close by, false master of an estranged and exiled body.

estrangement exile imagination stranger visions

Fernando Pessoa

4b72103

If you would seek to find yourself look not in the mirror for there is but a shadow there' A stranger.... SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH

reflection shadow stranger stranger-in-the-mirror youself

Sidney Sheldon

0b6e481

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

existence immersion morocco objectivity outsider senses stranger subjectivity truth

Paul Bowles

4a45573

I wasn't scare, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

stranger

Jack Kerouac

145b941

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

lied mirror murder stranger stranger-in-the-mirror young youth

Sidney Sheldon

3bc24d0

It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he make a fool of me wreck my image of myself invade me destroy me change me? Yes, that he will. There's the terrible thing: the strangeness of the stranger.

people strange stranger

Ursula K. Le Guin

e2ba9a3

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

cost evaluate home look regret result return stranger think truth

Robin Hobb

2f57ae0

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

stranger unfamiliar

Robert Ludlum

a735d96

I am only an egg.

only stranger

Robert A. Heinlein

31df547

A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge.

prejudice stranger

John Fowles

f3629a7

"Um, thanks," Jackson told her. "And your name is...?" "I'm Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf," she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached. "Van Der Graaf?" Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn't want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but... Van Der Graaf? "What are you laughing at?" Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. "I like my name. If you're going to be a jerk, then I won't help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care." "...Harsh," said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something 'off' about her, something that Jackson couldn't quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. "Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?" He couldn't resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. "Who else lives here?" he urged. "Me, myself and I," said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression"

comedy friendship funny ghost humor longing lonliness name smile stranger weird

Rebecca McNutt

fb68d84

"Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone." A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody. "What's wrong with her?" I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at. "Oh, don't worry, we're all mad here." I giggle, mostly from nerves. "It's a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land . I definitely think I've fallen into the rabbit hole." "Read what?" Harley asks. "Never mind." All around me, eyes follow my every move. "Look," I say loudly. "I know I look different. But I'm just a person, like you." I hold my head up high, looking them all in the eyes, trying to hold their stares for as long as possible. "You tell 'em," says Harley with another Cheshire grin."

alice-in-wonderland amy-martin cheshire different down-the-rabbit-hole harley introducing mad nerves stranger we-are-all-mad-here

Beth Revis

f2b9624

Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow mind is burning as he sits watching her hands and thinks how rare! to see a Roman talk with no gestures at all.

stranger tears

Anne Carson

1aae4ac

Her face was a stranger's face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

lukassa stranger tikat

Peter S. Beagle

f5757dc

Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

empathy end equal equaliser feel shed stranger tear

Mitch Albom