Henry James Quotes

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimism for anything, because the other option is no fun.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

You don't know where life takes you.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.