Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

The world is a very abnormal place.

I'm totally unpredictable and never do anything consistently.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.