Quotes About Surprise

Now I continued sipping my soup. If my lack of emotion had not surprised me from the standpoint of professional interest, I would not remember this incident now, because there was so little feeling involved in it.

Obstipuit, retroque pedem cum voce repressit: inprovisum aspris veluti qui sentibus anguem pressit humi nitens, trepidusque repente refugit attollentem iras et caerula colla tumentem; haud secus Androgeos visu tremefactus abibat.

The door opens and the tiger leaps.

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

To seek a true feeling among the chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life, to recognize it when found, and to accept the consequences of the discovery, draws lines upon the smoothest brow, while it quickens the light of the eyes; it is a pursuit which is alternately bewildering, debasing, and exalting, and as Katherine speedily found, her discoveries gave her equal cause for surprise, shame, and intense anxiety.

And she came in from the little room.

By conviction an atheist perhaps, he is taken by surprise with moments of extraordinary exaltation. Nothing

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.

The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that offensive is frequently but a synonym for unusual; and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

The determinate scheme by stripping the sunrise of it's surprise would erase all sunrays.

offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual; and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come as a more or less shocking surprise.

the conjurer had poured milk, molasses, foaming champagne into a young lady's new white purse; and lo, the purse was intact

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

De kilheid van haar eigen hart verbaasde haar. Ze was een meer met onvermoede diepten, ijskoud was het water daar.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

I wasn't prepared for you, Elise. Holy hell…not even close.

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs.

This detour was only supposed to be temporary. I never dreamed I'd find forever here.

I never thought it could be like this with someone. I never imagined that I would ever feel this connected to anyone, this whole. I've never felt this terrified either.

You have found your destiny, Gabrielle. Just like I said you would. I never told you it would be with me. ~ Lucan

Ah, fuck," he uttered raggedly against her lips. "This wasn't supposed to happen. You weren't supposed to happen, Devony." She hadn't been prepared for him, either.