Welcome to Stranger Quotes, a collection of insightful, enigmatic, and thought-provoking quotes about the essence of strangeness and the mysteries it entails. The concept of strangeness is a multifaceted one, often evoking feelings of curiosity, intrigue, and even unease. Throughout history, writers, philosophers, artists, and thinkers of all kinds have grappled with the notion of strangeness, exploring its various manifestations in human experience and the world around us.
In this compilation, we delve into the realm of the unknown, where the familiar intersects with the unfamiliar, and the ordinary gives way to the extraordinary. From profound reflections on the nature of existence to whimsical musings on the quirks of everyday life, these quotes offer a glimpse into the myriad ways in which strangeness permeates our consciousness and shapes our understanding of reality. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, contemplation, or simply a moment of curiosity, you’ll find something intriguing within these pages.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes on the topic of strangeness. Feel free to explore, ponder, and engage with these words as you see fit. Copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts the choice is yours. Let the journey into the realm of strangeness begin.
I always wish I could just see the ‘Stranger Things’ from an audience standpoint and not from mine. ‘Cause when I watch it, I remember someone was behind there and behind there. I just can’t watch it like a viewer. But I love seeing something on paper come to TV. Noah Schnapp
My friend had told me about ‘Stranger Things’ and how I had to watch it. I was like, ‘OK, I will!’ I binged it in, like, a day and was like, ‘Oh my gosh, Mom, you need to watch this show. Everyone needs to watch this.’ A week later, I got the breakdown for Max. A month later, I got the part. Sadie Sink
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way. Arthur Miller
Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. Mark Twain
Things like, when a total stranger says, ‘I want you to record something for my forthcoming wedding,’ that can be a bit tiresome. But it’s a high-class problem. It doesn’t hurt my feelings. Matt Berry
When I first auditioned for ‘Stranger Things,’ I was just living in Chicago. Just looking for a job. Working at a restaurant, doing commercials and bit parts on shows. I honestly would have been happy booking anything. Joe Keery
I remember, when I was modelling in Japan, the agency would tell us that some guy wanted to take all the girls out to dinner, and I would be the one girl who didn’t go – I didn’t want to go out with a stranger. Carrie-Anne Moss
It’s a sad commentary when children feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own parents and ask him to solve their personal problems. Lorne Greene
I’m no stranger to pain. It’s what made me. DeMar DeRozan
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes. Michael Stipe
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
I can sit down with my sisters, and they can talk about my body in a certain way, and I will laugh about it with them. That’s such a comfortable and loving relationship. But if a stranger I meet in a party makes the same comment, depending on their tone, that’s not okay. Rupi Kaur
It is the circuit of the great ruinous deed when the name of the seventh is that of the fifth; when the third, even greater, the warlike stranger will take Paris, nor will Provence save her. Nostradamus
There’s a lot to love about Nancy Wheeler in the second season of ‘Stranger Things.’ Natalia Dyer
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. Mark Twain
Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. Karel Capek
I am a very introvert person who cannot initiate a chat with a stranger. Tripti Dimri
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena. Walter Dean Myers
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that. Barbra Streisand
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson
My parents always told me about VHS tapes. And the Walkman, everyone had those. I had never even seen one until I got onto ‘Stranger Things.’ Noah Schnapp
I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: ‘Is that kid from ‘Love Actually’ there?’ And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: ‘Are you famous?’ I don’t know how to answer. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
In places such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia people depend on each other a lot more. We can often be quite detached in the West, with e-mail and telephones, whereas in those countries people rely on each other more. It’s lovely because you feel like, although you’re a stranger, they respect you as a friend and want to help you. Charley Boorman
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones
One of my biggest fears – maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian – is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus. Francis Chan
Well I actually came to shoot ‘Stranger Things’ straight from filming a movie called ‘Bridge of Spies,’ which is directed by Stephen Spielberg, so I was recommended to watch a bunch of his movies, like ‘E.T’ and stuff. Noah Schnapp
All that nipping and tucking doesn’t make you look younger – only stranger. Dick Van Dyke
It’s intriguing to me, when I see a horror script, or something like that, that’s actually original. I think that’s why I love ‘Stranger Things,’ because it’s not just horror, it’s everything, and when they use horror it’s right. Finn Wolfhard
As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever. Erin Gray
It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Mark Twain
For me, Will being gay or not is besides the point. ‘Stranger Things’ is a show about a bunch of kids who are outsiders and find each other because they have been bullied in some way or are different. Noah Schnapp
In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger. Gautham Menon
Everybody is just a stranger, but that’s the danger in going my own way. John Mayer
You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. Annie Leibovitz
But, I feel like I grew up in the ’80s now from ‘Stranger Things.’ Noah Schnapp
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Khalil Gibran
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. Harriet Tubman
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. Arthur Schopenhauer
I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of my formative years up and down trees, fooling around in the woods. I’m no stranger to that sort of landscape. Alex Turner
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger. Albert Schweitzer
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that. Michio Kaku
If I’m receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting someone up for a casual favor out of the blue who you’ve never met before. I really believe in manners. Caroline Polachek
On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger’s home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else. George Clooney
There’s always something really bad that happens in ‘Stranger Things,’ I think the more fun we’re having at the beginning, the higher the drop. Finn Wolfhard
Smile at a stranger. See what happens. Patti LuPone
I started ‘Outer Banks,’ because there’s so much hype around it. I saw one episode and I didn’t really continue, but I got to keep going at it. Two of the actors on there were also in ‘Stranger Things,’ and all my friends always ask, ‘Oh my God, you know Madelyn Cline. She was in ‘Stranger Things’ too.’ Noah Schnapp
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. Eric Hoffer
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. Agatha Christie
The thing that I’m most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, ‘I can’t stop drinking. I can’t stop drinking. Can you help me?’ I can say, ‘Yes, I can help you.’ Matthew Perry
Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it’s stranger than non-fiction as well. Brad Holland
I mean, I’m pretty sad that I have to leave all of my home friends and I can’t see them for basically half a year. That’s not a great thing, but we’ll FaceTime and stuff. What I’m excited for is to be on the set with all the ‘Stranger Things’ cast. Noah Schnapp
Let me be clear – I’m no stranger to the challenges facing our borders, ports of entry, and the needs of the dedicated men and women who protect them. Abigail Spanberger
I don’t want to sound corny; everyone tells you what it’s going to be like to have kids and you’re like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.’ And then you have kids, and in an instant nothing in the world matters except for this stranger, because this person comes into the world and in an instant all your focus and priorities becomes these kids. Cameron Mathison
What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty. Lewis B. Smedes
In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act. Michael Dirda
One of the most beautiful things about Shakespeare’s Hamlet is when he stops in the middle of the play to ask, ‘To be or not to be?’ Then, right at the end, he decides to ‘let be.’ The first season of ‘Stranger Things’ was Hopper asking whether ‘to be or not to be’ and the second is to ‘let be.’ David Harbour
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck. Thomas More
I don’t believe in the term ‘guilty pleasure,’ because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don’t know, taking gratification in some stranger’s ghastly death or something – which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime. Bill Hader
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Tecumseh
If you’re a stranger, and you’ve never met me before, I’ll probably be more reserved and quiet. If you’re my friend, you probably see the same stuff that you see me do onstage. Sasheer Zamata
Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular. Heather Dubrow
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. Lord Byron
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger’s voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men’s eyes might not see Her misery. Helen Hunt Jackson
I’m usually the kind of person where if someone tells me, ‘Oh my God, you have to watch this show. It’s amazing,’ I kind of want to go against it and not watch it. But for ‘Stranger Things,’ I couldn’t resist. I had to watch it. Sadie Sink
A lot of ‘Stranger Things’ is having to be able to, in your mind, turn a little tennis ball into a huge monster. In Season 2, there was one scene where I was screaming at the monster and I was screaming at nothing. It was just the sky. So I really have a big imagination, I guess? Noah Schnapp
In ‘Stranger Things,’ of course, I have all these kids around me and I feel like on a TV show, you’re more connected with everyone already. But it’s fun getting on a movie set and getting to know everyone. There’re pros and cons to everything. Noah Schnapp
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama… Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly. Haniel Long
Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman. Maryanne Trump Barry
I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself. Pippa Middleton
In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal. Oliver Tambo
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. Vladimir Nabokov
To the predators… Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend… I say to you, ‘You can choose your sin but you don’t get to choose the consequences.’ To the victims… I see you. I believe you… and I’m listening. Viola Davis
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others’ feelings, being inclusive. Margaret D. Nadauld
Just filming Season 1 was different because I had to fly back and forth, in and out. I remember the show was just so relaxed because no one knew what the show was; we used the words ‘Stranger Things’ on all the sides, and all the cast names. Then in Season 2, you used code names for everything, and they just had to up the security. Noah Schnapp
Hello, friends.’ I’ve had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don’t apologize for it. Like my dad – for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease – I’ve never met a stranger. Jim Nantz
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. Ernst Mayr
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. Andreas Capellanus
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Jean Baudrillard
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. Neil Gaiman
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with. Pico Iyer
When a stranger comes into our presence, then, first appearances are likely to enable us to anticipate his category and attributes, his ‘social identity’ – to use a term that is better than ‘social status’ because personal attributes such as ‘honesty’ are involved, as well as structural ones, like ‘occupation.’ Erving Goffman
While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion – namely, that I myself could not think at all. William Golding
I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a ‘love for the stranger,’ and equality before the law – these are not foreign values: this is Judaism. Reuven Rivlin
Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the hungry, in clothing the naked, and in caring for the prisoner. Edward Everett Hale
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don’t you feel a certain alienation? Gunter Grass
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. Johann Arndt
Untangling Christmas lights is the true tragedy of ‘Stranger Things.’ David Harbour
We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger. Alastair Reynolds
You don’t need a rope to pinch a stranger’s butt. Phil McGraw
Never floss with a stranger. Joan Rivers
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time. Craig Brown
When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works. Pete Buttigieg
God is not distant: he is ‘Emmanuel,’ God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI
I’ve never met a stranger. Wally Funk