Ralph Waldo Emerson Surprise Quotations

If a man carefully examines his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.

Life is a series of surprises.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?