XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Ὦ φίλοι, οὐ γάρ πώ τι κακῶν ἀδαήμονές εἰμεν.
“We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”
Variant: Don’t be upset. The world is full of surprises. We’re all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we’re seldom formally introduced.
Source: Spin (2005), p. 438
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Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
Source: John Mayer: Battle Studies
“Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger
-Septimus Heap”
You & I Will Meet Again
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variant: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
“The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.”
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15
