“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.” BelievePersonsFeelingsDeathDiesDifficultOneselfUnexpectedNothingnessAdvent Author:Gustave Flaubert
“When I lived in Cookham I was disturbed by a feeling of everything being meaningless.But quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full of special meaning and this made everything holy... I observed this sacred quality in most unexpected quarters.” MadeFeelingsQualitySpecialHolySacredUnexpectedMeaninglessQuartersDisturbedBeing MeBeing Mean Book:Stanley Spencer: An English Vision Source: Stanley Spencer: An English Vision
“The essence of the ludicrous consists in surprise,--in unexpected terms of feeling and explosions of thought,--often bringing dissimilar things together with a shock; as when some wit called Boyle, the celebrated philosopher, the father of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork.” FeelingsTogetherFatherTermBrotherEssenceSurprisePhilosopherWitShockUnexpectedChemistryExplosionsCork Author:Edwin Percy Whipple
“Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.” WayGivingSometimesFeelingsCareFormTalkingRiskGroupsProduceBirthIntellectualExcitementHeatUnexpectedFeverInfectionSmall Groups Author:Stephanie Mills
“What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLifeShouldChildrenFactsFeelingsPastYoungLife IsWaitingNiceOur ChildrenAwfulYour ChildrenUnexpectedImpressSlipping Book:Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford Source: Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford