Quotes on Unexpectedness

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.