Quotes About Surprise

Tout l'effort de l'esprit ne parvient pas à recréer cette émotion de la surprise qui ajoute au charme de l'objet une étrangeté ravissante. Le beauté du monde extérieur reste la même, mais la virginité du regard s'est perdue.

Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise même est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?

In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.

Ni siquiera a mí?!

Send the shears flying and they'll always find their way up the gardener's ass.

her first goal was 19. then she became 19, and she didnt die. it surprised her. nothing had ever surprised her like that.

Instead of answering the young man lifted up his robe, and showed the Sultan that, from the waist downwards, he was a block of black marble.

Well"—Lewis announcing over coffee and honeyed flatbreads—"we are being given an opportunity for a different experience than the one we were expecting.

We think we know the ones we love, and though we should not be surprised to find that we don't, it is heartbreak nonetheless. It is the hardest kind of knowledge, not just about another but about ourselves. To see our lives as a fiction we have written and believed. Silence and lies. The sensation I felt that evening--that I did not know my Holland, did not know myself, that it was perhaps impossible to know a single soul on earth--it was a fearful loneliness.

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

Is there a bucket of blood hanging high in the auditorium rafters, waiting to be dropped

Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

Why did he always assume Mexico City would be like Phoenix on a smoggy day? Why did no one tell him it would be Madrid

Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden. And who knows which side you will find yourself on?

We had apparently brought with us only the case of Dewey beer (from Delaware)

Just when we lose hope and believe life to be chaos, fate provides a pattern

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discovered what I would have to call a soul, a part of myself I could never have imagined until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit. It's a precious discovery.

Beatrix is kneeling beside him, fanning his face. 'Are you okay, Boris?' says Beatrix. 'Never felt better!' says Boris, suddenly leaping up and stretching out to his full height.

Okay," I said, "then I'm sorry to inform you that I'm going to have to whack you over the head with this giant banana." "Not if I can whack you first!" said Terry, snatching the banana from my hands and whacking me over the head with it. That's when everything went black.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen.

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.