Quotes About Surprise

Holy shit whistles there are real live werewolves, my boyfriend is one of them, and my reaction to all this was to pull my pants down and get pounded? And that's when he wants to tell me he loves me?

Se echó a reír. Vaya, pensé, la noche es día. Así que todo era teatro.

Holy Lesbos, Batman!

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything which happens in life.

How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything that happens in life.

Should not thou rather blame thyself, who, when upon very good grounds of reason, thou mightst have thought it very probable, that such a thing would by such a one be committed, didst not only not foresee it, but moreover dost wonder at it, that such a thing should be.

Remember that as it is a shame to be surprised if the fig-tree produces figs, so it is to be surprised if the world produces such and such things of which it is productive

You'll find that none of the people who make you lose your temper has done anything that might affect your mind for the worse; and outside of the mind there's nothing that is truly detrimental or harmful for you… After all, you even had the resources, in the form of your ability to think rationally, to appreciate that he was likely to commit that fault, yet you forgot it and are now surprised that he did exactly that.

13. The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.

The life of such a man, death can never surprise as imperfect; like an actor, who had to die before the end, or the play itself was over, a man could speak.

The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

Jesus was telling his contemporaries that the kingdom was indeed breaking into history, but that it did not look like what they had expected.

A bathrobe answered the door.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.

But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything?

Why is war so much like a practical joke? she thinks. Hiding behind bushes, leaping out, with not much difference between Boo! and Bang! except the blood.

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.

Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.