Ralph Waldo Emerson Surprise Quotations

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?

Life is a series of surprises.

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