Quotes About Unexpected Death

#1. I was 'led' to read The Shack by Wm Paul Young after the sudden & unexpected death of my fiance', Marina DeAngelo in July of 2012. It helped me as it has millions of people with the trauma and grief associated with the great personal loss of a loved one."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#2. We are the ones who get bored because our capacity to focus our attention, to delight our minds in sustained thought, has been weakened by our dependence on external stimuli.

John Ortberg

#3. Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Julius Caesar

#4. My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

Linda McCartney

#5. The external rest comes unexpected.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The start and unexpected miracle of a night fades out with the lingering death of the last starts and the premature birth of the first newsboys. The flame retreats to some remote and platonic fire; the white heat has gone from the iron and the glow from the coal.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Well that's disappointing," Grandma Mazur said. "I expected something better from her.

Janet Evanovich

#8. Death is like that, it blinks, we blink; not always able to see the Stop signs, hiding behind trees in the corner of the roads.

Anthony Liccione

#9. Death occurs in unexpected times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.

Wanda Sykes

#11. It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.

Walter Mosley

#12. That was a strange thing, the death of Coco. Not that he should die, for owing to the unexpected folly of the concierge it was inevitable that he should, but his manner of doing it. Even at this distance of time, the remembrance agonises me. There

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#13. Get a peek at what married life is like for Layken and Will in This Girl, the third book

Colleen Hoover

#14. General Studies
Question: Redundancy is often an unpleasant and unexpected event in someone's life. Give two examples of unexpected life events.

Answer: 1) death 2) Reincarnation

Richard Benson

#15. A life lived as variously as Roger's, and evoked in writing as powerful as his, means that even after death his influence continues to flow outwards. Green Man-like, he appears in unexpected places, speaking in leaves.

Robert Macfarlane

#16. ...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death - we might discover something unexpected there.

Roland Merullo

#17. The distance between your dreams and reality is faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.

Adrian Tomine

#19. If there was sadness in this creative world of mine, it was a pleasant sadness. If there were problems, they were humorous problems.

Norman Rockwell

#20. Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.

R. Scott Bakker

#22. My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

Phoebe Snow

#23. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

#24. My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

Charles Dickens

#25. So what advice does your website offer?"
"According to this, newly engaged couples touch all the time. They can't bear to be next to each other and not feel each other. Does that mean I have permission to stroke your breasts in public? Maybe this won't be so bad after all.

Sarah Morgan

#26. Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Jim Bishop

#29. I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth.

Vachel Lindsay

#30. When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

Plutarch

#31. Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.

Robert Draper

#32. Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

Jim Bouton

#33. After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

Gustave Flaubert