Quotes About Surprise

Just when I thought life was over you came into my life.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you...There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.

My life is so different than I thought it would be.

Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

I don't know about you, but I call impromptu vomiting harm.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.