Ian Mcewan Quotes

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

With me, you never know what is going to happen

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.