For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.