Quotes about Surprise

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

4. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.

It's not four days ago I find a bastard squatting here, asking me if I read books. Like he would jump me with a book or something. Take me for a ride with the telephone directory.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Emptiness where you wouldn't expect it speaks to you.

He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.

But I think St. Peter and the twelve Apostles would have been rather surprised at the concept that Christ had been scourged and beaten by soldiers, cursed and crowned with thorns and subjected to unutterable contempt and finally nailed to the Cross and left to bleed to death in order that we might all become gentlemen.