unforeseeable circumstances Quotes

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

There are no inevitabilities in history

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Life is a rotten lottery.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.