The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (. . . ) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.
A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.
Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.
. . . when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.
It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.
I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.
O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!
