Most people know that there is a lot of wisdom in proverbs and sayings. What many people don’t know, however, is that some of the best proverbs and sayings come from everyday strangers. In this blog post, we will compile some of the best stranger quotes we have found.

The best stranger quotes

1. There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces. — Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well

2. Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. — Neil Gaiman

3. Never make eye contact with a stranger when you’re having a churro. — Rucy Ban, All My Life

4. Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

5. But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other. — Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part–Time Indian

6. Kindness expressed to a stranger is kindness expressed to God. — Virginia Lieto

7. Never make eye contact with a stranger when you’re having a churro. — Rucy Ban, All My Life

8. Now that I’m 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, ‘I don’t know who you are, stranger, but I’m gonna shave you anyway’. — Milton Friedman

9. Strangers will show you the wayBut a true friend will escort you, to your destination.1st November, 2006 — Tushar Mangl

10. Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg

11. This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger. — Mark Twain

12. Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

13. I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can’t go up to a stranger & say ‘your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation’– — W B Yeats

14. ‘simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book.” (Steven Levy)’ — Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

15. Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I’m a stranger in my own? — Sheryl Crow

16. I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger. — The Joker Heath Ledger

17. Miracles happen quietly every day–in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. — Mitch Albom

18. A short story is a different thing altogether–a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger. — Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

19. No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him. — Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

20. Strangers, ‘ the Blue Man said, ‘are just family you have yet to come to know. — Mitch Albom

21. I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger. — The Joker Heath Ledger

22. A short story is a different thing all together–a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. — Stephen King

23. Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself. — Vivid Darkness

24. The musician and the listener.If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show. — Tablo

25. There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven’t met… — Roald Dahl

26. When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger? — Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

27. Being political doesn’t only or principally mean caring what party wins the next election — to be political is to care about the happiness of strangers.

28. Winter is no stranger to cold hearts. — Sakhile Koaho

29. If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, ‘Who could have done this? We have no enemies!’ — Phyllis Diller

30. A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend. — Paul Smith

31. When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven’t spoken since. — Steven Wright

32. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself? — Oscar Wilde

33. You–have–to love your monster. — Philippa Dowding, Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me: The Night Flyer’s Handbook

34. For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him. — Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

35. Customs, morals––is there a difference? — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

36. Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen. — Ruth Downie, Medicus

37. Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

38. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend. — Simon Cowell

39. You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal! — Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

40. Now that I’m 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, ‘I don’t know who you are, stranger, but I’m gonna shave you anyway’. — Milton Friedman

41. Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? — Walt Whitman

42. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world. — Virginia Woolf

43. Now there were no more stories to tell, to soothe, to comfort, to draw strangers close together; to link like hearts and minds. — Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue

44. The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. — Mark Twain

45. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction — for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

46. I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think? — Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

47. They were inlove, but they hadn’t been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years — Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me

48. Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. — Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

49. Perhaps we all have a face behind a face…Good and the bad, happy and sad, sane and insane. We all have an angel and the stranger and we all have the choice! — Nino Varsimashvili

50. The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger? — Maurice Sendak

Conclusion

We all have the power to create a positive impact on strangers. Whether it be an act of kindness or a simple smile, our actions can have a profound effect on those around us. By remembering these quotes about strangers, we can strive to be better people, and make the world a better place.