„How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life“

— Marcus Aurelius

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„A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.“
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
„How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.“
— John C. Maxwell
„How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„How he lies in his rights of a man!Death has done all death can.And absorbed in the new life he leads,He recks not, he heedsNor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strikeOn his senses alike,And are lost in the solemn and strangeSurprise of the change.“
— Robert Browning
„How strange it is that man on earth should roam,And lead a life of woe, but not forsakeHis rugged path; nor dare he view aloneHis future doom which is but to awake. “
— John Keats
„I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.“
— Margaret Atwood