Welcome to our collection of Surprise Quotes! Throughout history, surprise has been a captivating element of human experience, evoking a range of emotions from delight to shock. Whether it’s a sudden plot twist in a story, an unexpected turn of events in life, or a surprising revelation, the element of surprise adds depth and excitement to our journey.
Surprise can be found in various aspects of life – from the small, everyday surprises that bring joy to our routine, to the grand, unforeseen events that leave us speechless. It reminds us of the unpredictability of life and the beauty of embracing the unknown. Through these quotes, we explore the essence of surprise and its impact on our perceptions, emotions, and relationships.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of surprise quotes that capture the essence of this intriguing phenomenon. Feel free to use them to add a touch of surprise to your projects, whether by placing them on an image, enhancing them with stylish fonts, or simply reflecting on their wisdom. Enjoy the journey of discovery as you delve into the world of surprise!
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. Lewis Thomas
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don’t know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense – but if you don’t know that there’s a bomb and it just blows up, then it’s just a surprise. Gus Van Sant
Baggio is a unique player. It should not surprise you that he gets the most press. But you must remember that it takes a full team to win. Paolo Maldini
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority. Safak Pavey
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Alan Turing
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. Robert Baden-Powell
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. Harvey Cushing
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. Rick Warren
There are two kinds of people in crisis situations – those who fight and those who freeze. I’m a freezer, and that’s just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I’ve had thrown for me. Cobie Smulders
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied. Henry B. Eyring
Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it. Hamsalekha
When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back. Kirk Douglas
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. Heywood Broun
If you don’t take an opponent serious, they surprise you. Canelo Alvarez
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. Randy Pausch
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. Henry James
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe. Billy Zane
It’s not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can’t escape this bubble from being on our phones and tablets. Ben Fogle
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. Lionel Blue
You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work. Arjen Robben
Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it’s going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don’t know if they’re going to live or die. George R. R. Martin
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That’s why I think I’ll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know? Gotye
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves. Derek Walcott
The day has to come when it’s not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position. Condoleezza Rice
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. Jessica Savitch
About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I’m good at. I know what I ain’t. I’m always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that’s the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too. Keith Richards
Art must take reality by surprise. Francoise Sagan
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton
There has to be that zeal to do something new and surprise yourself and audiences. You have to stay true to your craft, and that should never be sidelined. Yami Gautam
I don’t think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? Andy Rooney
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. Marianne Williamson
The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn’t like it. There was a lot of disillusionment. Morten Harket
I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people. I loved watching people open them. It was a surprise for me and then. Emily Hampshire
When I did ‘Bird,’ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me. Clint Eastwood
I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn’t any question about my being nominated. I don’t think it was a surprise. Gloria Stuart
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence – putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply – if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. Edward Albee
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. Joan Didion
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. Alice Walker
I hate my birthday. I don’t like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better. Sophie
It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre. Dwayne Johnson
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak
It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I’m in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I’m doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes. Kevin Kline
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements – order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. Henry Moore
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. Stonewall Jackson
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. Voltaire
We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things. Richard Schiff
Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul – she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, ‘Don’t you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.’ Bernie Mac
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances. Emile Durkheim
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy’s place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. John Berger
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! Wallace Stevens
I was so thrilled to be in ‘Doctor Who.’ It’s such a wonderful experience, and the fan base that that show has never fails to surprise me. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn’t something I grew up with or thought I could be part of. Moran Atias
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Oscar Niemeyer
A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise. Joyce Carol Oates
Surprise is key in all art. Oscar Niemeyer
Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know what’s going to happen next. Pete Carroll
Humor’s always been the problem of my work, hasn’t it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing. Kara Walker
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. Julia Cameron
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. William James
My advice is don’t keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself. Roz Savage
To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing. John Garfield
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. Carl von Clausewitz
I guess that’s just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. Stephanie Kwolek
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn
It’s great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people. Pamela Anderson
On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack – as were the CIA and the rest of the world. Alistair Horne
The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let’s think about what’s the whole battle. David Mamet
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. Camille Pissarro
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. Henri Nouwen
Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. Che Guevara
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In the Premier League, you never know who is going to win or who will be champions. It is always a surprise. Neymar
The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there’s no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel. Elaine Pagels
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. Francis Bacon
I wouldn’t say I’m a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don’t tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. Alejandro Amenabar
Anytime I’m involved with anything that’s well-received, it’s a surprise to me. Larry David
‘The Good Wife’ was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I’ve had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of ‘work begets work’ actually worked in that case – it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced. Carrie Preston
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. Charles de Gaulle
The biggest lesson that I’ve learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise. Michael Kors
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Ashley Montagu
Most things in life come as a surprise. Lykke Li
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset Maugham
Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer. Pamela Meyer
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. Robert Frost
It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. Sonny Rollins
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature. Paulo Coelho
It doesn’t surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body. Monica Bellucci
I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge. Archie Panjabi
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way. Anthony Horowitz
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett
The secret to humor is surprise. Aristotle
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises. Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S. Patton
Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it’s no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won’t improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that’s led parents, students and educators to shout ‘Enough!’ all across the country. Randi Weingarten
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder. Charles Morgan
