XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Spin
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
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
Give
Poetry quotes, New Thought Pastels (1913)
“Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
Source: John Mayer: Battle Studies
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter
Source: Letter to My Daughter
“Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger
-Septimus Heap”
Angie Sage (1952) English author and illustrator
Tom Petty (1950–2017) American musician
You & I Will Meet Again
Lyrics, Into The Great Wide Open (1991)
“There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't met…”
Roald Dahl (1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Shirley MacLaine (1934) American actress
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) <br class="br">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.”
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
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 15
