Quotes about Surprise
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
- Marcus Aurelius
Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?
- Marcus Aurelius
But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything?
- Margaret Atwood
The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.
- Margaret Atwood
From this distance it does resemble fun. Fun is not knowing how it will end.
- Margaret Atwood
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
- Anne Lamott
Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
- Anne Lamott
God's joy moves from unmarked box to unmarked box, from cell to cell. As rainwater, down into flowerbed. As roses, up from ground. Now it looks like a plate of rice and fish, now a cliff covered with vines, now a horse being saddled. It hides within these, till one day it cracks them open.
- Anne Lamott
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity—it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a Remembrance.
- John Keats
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
- George Bernard Shaw
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats
You know, you might not think that Wigglytuff can, like, throw a thunder or lightning-type move at you. But, oh, just you watch.
- Bowen Yang