“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”

Samuel Youd (1922–2012) British writer

“Tomorrow's some kind of Stranger I'm not supposed to see.”

St. Vincent (musician) (1982) American singer-songwriter

“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Mary Renault book The Charioteer

“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”

Jane Austen book Persuasion

“There is no such thing as making a mistake. Only one thing is compulsory, only one mistake: and that is not realizing your mistakes.”

Robert Fripp (1946) English guitarist, composer and record producer

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”

Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist

“Love is beautiful only when you are secretly loved by a stranger.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist