Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.
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We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again
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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
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History is full of surprises.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-up...
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
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Life is full of surprises. Just say 'never' and you'll see.
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