Milan Kundera Quotes

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

Adventure is just bad planning.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

Life is all about the unexpected.

You don't know where you're going to be tomorrow. It's kind of hard to plan a future.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.