Quotes about Surprise

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

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

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

The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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.

You know, you might not think that Wigglytuff can, like, throw a thunder or lightning-type move at you. But, oh, just you watch.