Nahj al-Balagha
Arnaut Daniel (1150–1210) Occitan troubadour
Fra tutti il primo Arnaldo Danïello<br>Gran maestro d'amor; ch'a la sua terra<br>Ancor fa onor col suo dir strano e bello. <br class="br">Petrarch Il Trionfo d'Amore, capitolo IV, line 40; uncredited translation from petrarch.petersadlon.com http://petrarch.petersadlon.com/read_trionfi.html?page=I-IV.en <br class="br">Criticism
“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.”
Javad Alizadeh (1953) cartoonist, journalist and humorist
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (July 1995), p. 3
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
Context: We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805–1859) French political thinker and historian
Original text: J'ai tant de sentiments et d'idées qui me sont communes avec les Anglais, que l'Angleterre est devenue pour moi une seconde patrie intellectuelle.
Voyages en Angleterre et en Irlande (Journeys to England and Ireland), 1835.
1830s
