"You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else."
Stranger quotes
Stranger
444 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Stranger
Browse quotes that often appear alongside stranger — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Stranger quotes (page 5 of 23)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I count on the kindness of strangers."
"Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is."
"I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters."
"When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training."
"We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are."
"I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit."
"The truth, however, was stranger still."
"The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that."
"Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed)."
"You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you."
"Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger."
"Strangers are an endangered species."
"Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever."
"To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours."
"Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees."
"Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one."
"It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?"
"Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter."
"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."