We live in a golden era of self-aware voyeurism: We’re all putting on a show, and we’re all watching, all the time. We’re all swimming in a stream of curated intimacy, and we’re all pissing in it too.
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Quotes tagged ‘Strangers’
Why this need to make strangers fall in love with me?
Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
— Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, Blanche DuBois, Vivien Leigh, imdb.com
You ever look a picture of yourself, and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many strangers have pictures of you. How many moments of other peoples life have we been in. Were we a part of someone's life when their dream came true or were we there when their dream died. Did we k…
— David Strauss, Mike Herro, Lucas Scott, Chad Michael Murray, imdb.com
I like holding on to the company of strangers.
I don't like talking to people I know, but strangers I have no problem with.
Frasier: I, for one, happen to believe in the kindness of strangers. Roz: Well, I believe in the strangeness of strangers.
You know what the real danger is on the ocean? It’s people. Strangers. Friends.
We know dangerous men walk among us. What we can't be sure of is who they are or where they hide. So the most we can offer any stranger is reasonable doubt. But once the doubt is gone, people are anything but reasonable.
— Davhi Waller, Dahvi Waller, Susan Nirah Jaffee, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com
Sometimes, James feels like a boy I could love. Like, really love. Then other times, he feels like a total fucking stranger.
Whether this is my end or a new beginning, I have no way of knowing. I have given myself over into the hands of strangers. I have no choice. It can’t be helped. And so I step up, into the darkness within... Or else the light.
Some people may not know you, but say they don't like you. Don't even trip off people like that who spend most of their time chatting about you. CLEARLY, [you're] doing something they [are] interested in. LIVE YOUR LIFE as long as [you're] not hurting [anyone] & let the miserable people hang [out] t…
Whether this is my end or a new beginning, I have no way of knowing. I have given myself over into the hands of strangers. I have no choice. It can't be helped. And so I step up into the darkness within or else the light.
— Margaret Atwood, Nina Fiore, Bruce Miller, Offred (June Osborne), Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
Yes. But, I'm not accustomed with riding with... eh... strangers.
Why do Jehovah's Witnesses hate Halloween? They have to compete with other strangers going door-to-door.
People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family. My father said something years ago: 'Know no strangers.' Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody?
but were we ever strangers? your body was a home, even in the beginning. the familiar halls, the calming sounds, these were never unknown. how strange to think we don’t speak. I miss your voice. I miss my home.
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.