Top 69 Quotes About Uninvited
#1. Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. But we cannot always choose whose lives will become entangled with our own; these things happen to us, come to us uninvited, and Mma Ramotswe understood that well.
Alexander McCall Smith
#3. Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.
Harold Town
#4. He'd forgotten how irritating company could be. Uninvited, unwelcome, persistent reminder of his own weaknesses. And
Steven Erikson
#5. There is a whole mythology, a set of rules and issues surrounding a relationship like ours, that sneaks in uninvited.
Jessica Posner
#6. Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave
Aesop
#7. The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. That would have been the worst kind of violation, to read you words uninvited.
David Levithan
#9. Theo Fitzgerald," she said, still trying to shake off the night's uninvited visitor. "I mean, really!" The shake turned into yet another shiver, the sort usually inspired by a particularly wicked mouthful of very rich, supersmooth, utterly sinful ice cream.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#10. When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#11. Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
Cecelia Ahern
#12. In certain company
Often the uninvited
We react
We transform one another
Michele L. Rivera
#13. The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
Dag Hammarskjold
#14. Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite Excuse me?
Adi Alsaid
#15. So strong of will is this young man, to come back from the dead, to accuse me now, in my bed, where even my wife fears to be. Do these uninvited visitors seek vengeance? Maybe I do? Maybe I want that for them, but they are so many, and I am one man. They must know I can only die once.
Craig B. Phillips
#16. Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.
Albert Einstein
#17. I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'
Gary Allan
#18. I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to. It's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.
Werner Herzog
#19. Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
Nan Fairbrother
#20. Nothing makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and find the uninvited standing at the door making sure no other uninviteds get in.
Mike Yaconelli
#21. 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#22. ... she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah's Witness: uninvited and tireless.
Steve Toltz
#23. Can you enter a house uninvited?"
"No."
"Why?"
"That would be rude.
Abigail Gibbs
#25. Change, the uninvited guest that destroys what once was.
Kirby Crow
#26. I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse's elite salon in Flaubert's Sentimental Education - a
Chris Kraus
#27. Womanhood comes with its peculiar burdens, among them the constant reminder of a subordinate status whose dominant symptom was uninvited sexual attention from men
A. Igoni Barrett
#28. I ran up the street. All the way to Largo da Camara. Got there very tired. Mad, rather than tired. Uninvited old man. Little shits. They'll see who's the uninvited old man, motherfuckers.
Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
#29. Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?" ...
"Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223" ...
"And pray, why would this number interest us?"
"It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.
Abraham Verghese
#30. We note feelings and find that they last for only a few seconds. We pay attention to thoughts and find that they are ephemeral, that they come and go, uninvited, like clouds.
Jack Kornfield
#31. Just when you needed the sun most, an uninvited cloud may come and cover your sun! Welcome to life, my friend!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. When the flower blooms
The bees come uninvited.
Ramakrishna
#33. When you least expect to recall something, a memory can pop up like an uninvited guest on your doorstep.
Lesley Kagen
#34. He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreasonable presents, and show up uninvited at the most embarrassing times. Then he's going to stick with you, refusing to take the hint when you don't answer his calls.
Sara Miles
#35. Going to a party uninvited always has been a negative action. It never has been acceptable. At the very least, it upsets kitchen preparations, parking arrangements, and even details such as space for hanging coats and depositing dripping umbrellas.
Letitia Baldrige
#37. ...these thoughts start coming. They come all uninvited, don't they?
Patrick Ness
#38. Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#39. Hello dead girl," Isola said, ever the hostess.
"Hello heartbeat girl," said the uninvited guest. "It's like a drum, it's so fucking loud. Turn it down, will you?
Fairytales For Wilde Girls
#40. This world inside which sentience has awoken, uninvited, is the stuff of all nightmares, a living daymare, a defiled experiment draped in ethical ugliness, and is it therefore any surprise that a child's first reaction upon discovering themselves alive inside it is to scream in absolute horror?
John Zande
#41. I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want to be rude, but if it's uninvited attention from people it's like, "Thank you, but no." I'm going to shut you down right away.
Sophia Bush
#42. Don't you dare waltz uninvited into my gallery and disrespect me, my friends and my boyfriend. You do it again, I'll drag you out of here by your hair. Got me?
Kristen Ashley
#43. Months slip through the house surreptitiously, like uninvited spirits.
Beck Anderson
#44. As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary gate-crashing of mine must be a sign of a wretched thirsting after immortality.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#45. The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
Chuck Palahniuk
#47. Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
E.L. Konigsburg
#48. Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials.
Howard Thurman
#49. No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.
Staness Jonekos
#50. Most likely Pistons," said Pillover in a resigned tone of voice. "You told them about the ball. They like to go to events uninvited, put gin in the punch, and steal all the spoons. Stylish shenanigans like that."
"Charming," said Sophronia.
Gail Carriger
#51. The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.
Stephen King
#52. Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard
#53. Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.
Stephen Fry
#54. The ability to arrive uninvited in an alien land and convince one's hosts that almost everything they believe is wrong requires a rather forceful personality.
Mark Adams
#55. Now, could you maybe get some clothes on? That's uh ... distracting."
"You do know you came into my room uninvited, right? If I had known you were coming, I'd have been dressed."
He smirked. "I texted you."
"I was in the shower."
"Minor detail.
Abbi Glines
#56. My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.
The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.
Katherine Applegate
#57. Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
Richard Russo
#58. They told me the first mourner to come was the dog. He came uninvited, and stood up on his hind legs and rested his fore paws upon the trestle, and took a last long look at the face that was so dear to him, then went his way as silently as he had come. HE KNOWS.
Mark Twain
#59. You don't suck another person's sucker uninvited.
S.C. Stephens
#60. When executing advertising, it's best to think of yourself as an uninvited guest in the living room of a prospect who has the magical power to make you disappear instantly.
John O'Toole
#61. And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. You see, I don't go anywhere uninvited, and definitely, not before I am supposed to.
Ashay Abbhi
#63. We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.
Shauna Niequist
#64. Nobody knew what to do. We figured the government sort of did. The government had a plan for everything, so we assumed they had a plan for E.T. showing up uninvited and unannounced, like the weird cousin nobody in the family likes to talk about.
Rick Yancey
#65. For Sweden, the price of aiding the Allies could be fifty thousand uninvited guests
Greg Iles
#66. My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#67. Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.
Thomas Merton
#68. It's so tedious," Montgomery sighed, "to have to wait for invitations and, I find, they often don't come when you most want them to. Much easier to simply disregard formal invitations altogether.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#69. To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires preparation.
Lysa TerKeurst