A Quote by Sophocles

Stranger in a strange country.

Sophocles

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Sophocles
Greek - Poet
496 BC - 406 BC

A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

Thomas Traherne

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

Henry David Thoreau

When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

Anthony Heald

American poetry is this country's greatest patrimony. It takes a stranger to see some things clearly. This is one of them, and I am that stranger.

Joseph Brodsky

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

Carson McCullers

People are strange when you're a stranger.

Jim Morrison

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

Lord Byron

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

Lord Byron

A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange.

Robert Mandel

One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

Laini Taylor

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...