A Quote by Saul Bellow

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow

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Beauty Life Life Is Unexpected

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Saul Bellow
American - Writer
June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005

I don't think the possibility for beauty can be foreclosed, because beauty can take so many forms. There is beauty that arises from the unexpected, when our familiar perspectives are thrown off balance. There is also the beauty that paradoxically comes out of the tragic, that emerges because we are reminded of what is no longer there, that becomes powerful because of what is absent.

Sze Tsung Leong

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jeff Vandermeer

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jeff Vandermeer

When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

Alberto Villoldo

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Octavia Spencer

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Octavia Spencer

I think beauty is youth; it's energy. I'm attracted to imperfection, style, confidence, and experimentation. So beauty, to me, is really a lot of things. It's kind of unexpected-what surprises you.

Marc Jacobs

The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary victims of cyber intrusions. And they also possess the information, the expertise, and the knowledge to address cyber intrusions and cyber crime in general.

James Comey

I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

Oliver Sim

I think it is really helpful to see the beauty in every situation. I guess it's being able to see it in unexpected places. If you're fed too much of an image of what beauty is then you might define it as a certain specific thing, but when you have your own idea of what it is, or your own feelings of what beauty is, then it becomes so wide and so indefinable.

Yukimi Nagano

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Napoleon Hill

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

Oscar Wilde

I've found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.

Shannon Purser

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

William Ernest Henley

It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.