“They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years”

“I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.”

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author

“So many lovers, yet there is no love.”

Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician

“There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”

Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“On my seventieth birthday, when I reflected that so many of my friends were dead or dying, it hit me that it was high time I got more work done. Ever since that time, I have done the active, smart thing by increasing my productivity. I'm not on the rocks or shoals yet, but the last few years have been a devastation of illnesses and deaths of many good friends. [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry was a loss that deeply grieved me.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women