Surprise Quotes

“How come we never know what what we want until we find it?”
― Kate McGahan

“What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“Each time
we bow to the
feet of anything
we find riveting,
the mind rises to
be surprised with
new crowning
diamonds of
creativity.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Sometimes it's okay to be surprised. It's going to sound stupid, and I wouldn't ever say this out loud, but the way Theo and I came out to each other was sort of like getting caught in a thunderstorm. Storms can suck when they're knocking out power and ripping apart houses, no doubt. But other times the thunder is a soundtrack to something unpredictable, something that gets our hearts racing and wakes us up. If someone had warned me about the weather, I might have freaked out and stayed inside.
But I didn't.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Afterward the Captain was to tell himself that in this one instant he knew everything. Actually, in a moment when a great but unknown shock is expected, the mind instinctively prepares itself by abandoning momentarily the faculty of surprise. In that vulnerable instant a kaleidoscope of half-guessed possibilities project themselves, and when the disaster has defined itself there is the feeling of having understood beforehand in some supernatural way.”
― Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye

“It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time.
Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We come up against beauty here — for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“Who are you?” I asked.
“Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. “Lana, sorry to disappoint you, but I really am in a hurry, so I will have to take a rain check on this. We can play later this evening, if you don’t mind!”
“What game? I really mean it, who are you and why am I here?” I must have looked like I had really freaked out, and for a moment, she looked at me seriously. But then, she gave me another nice smile and kissed me on my cheek and said “Really babe, as much as I appreciate your playful morning mood, I really don’t have time now. I have a big job interview today, remember?”
― Nico J. Genes, Magnetic Reverie

“Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious—not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

“What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.”
― Spider Robinson, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

“Don't expect anything from anyone in your life ! If you will get something then except as a surprise gift.”
― Pranab Jyoti Borah

“किसी भी कहानी का असली मज़ा चौंकने और चौंकाने में है और अगर कोई कहानी चौंकाती नहीं है तो वह बंडल है..!”
― Gaurav Solanki, ग्यारहवीं-A के लड़के

“We are surprised not by someone’s death but by its cause or date.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an excursion where one is always sure of arriving, finding ready horses, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the comforts one can enjoy at home. One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the lack of the sudden surprise, the absence of all adventures. Everything is so well regulated, so well meshed, so well labeled, that chance is no longer possible; another century of perfection, and each one will be able to foresee, from the day of his birth, what will happen to him until the day of his death. Human will will be completely annihilated. No more crimes, no more virtues, no more physiognomies, no more originality. It will become impossible to distinguish a Russian from a Spaniard, an Englishman from a Chinese, a Frenchman from an American. People will not even be able to recognize one another, for everyone will be same. Then an immense boredom will seize the universe, and suicide will decimate the population of the globe, for the principal spring of life—curiosity—will have been destroyed forever.”
― Théophile Gautier

“Historically, nature has been very good at surprising us.”
― Sean Carroll, The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World

“By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able to be. If we live this way, we surprise ourselves”
― Anne Truitt, Turn: The Journal of an Artist

“You're... very unexpected.”
― Zøe Haslie, Just For A While

“The long-deluded will at last see the truth, and thus their expressions will have seen a ghost.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Legendary manners there, Karim,” she commented, her voice calm. “Your mother teach you?”

“I was taught the advantage of surprise,” he responded as he walked over to her massive desk.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Rising for Autumn

“If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don't want adventure."
"I think you do. I think in a moment of weakness, you might surprise yourself.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight

“The flowers are for the woman I glimpsed for just a moment the other night before she ran away with tears brimming in her eyes." His eyes drifted over the becoming blush of her cheeks, wondering why it was suddenly there. "That's the woman I see when I look at you. That's the woman I want to get to know tonight. Do you think she might be joining us?”
― Grace Willows, Lap Dancing

“Kvinnen er overraskelsen, innprent Dem det! så kan ingenting overraske Dem.”
― Alexander L. Kielland, Tre Par. Lystspil i Tre Akter

“So I put my shoulder against the door, which was too little for me anyway, said a hearty fuck your mother to the element of surprise, and flung myself out into the mirrored hallway where, as Temur had explained, at least six men would be waiting for me.”
― Danielle Bennett, Shadow Magic

“Having worked for a utility company, I was aware of how corrupt they are with their own workers. What really surprised me is how corrupt utilities are with their own customers!”
― Steven Magee

“Practical hopes are surprise whereas impractical hope is always a miracle!”
― Fahad Basheer

“Jenka: Iz dis de first time hyu faced down an entire army all by hyuself vit a veapon hyu vasn't sure vos gonna vork?
Gil: Well, yes ...
Jenka: Vell den. Dot's just hyu body bein' all surprized hyu ain't all blowed op and dead!”
― Phil Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne and the Voice of the Castle

“Don't expect anything from anyone in your life ! If you will get something then except as a surprise gift. ©PJB”
― Pranab Jyoti Borah

“The fall could have taken her all the way down, so deep she would not have come back the same or even close. He was going to pound her into the dark and leave her there.…”
― John Hart, Redemption Road