“Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.”

— David Gerrold, book The Man Who Folded Himself

Source: The Man Who Folded Himself (1973), p. 46

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Life is full of little surprises. Time travel is full of big ones." by David Gerrold?

David Gerrold photo

David Gerrold26

American screenwriter and novelist 1944

Related quotes

“Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

“A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author

The New York Times (26 November 1978)

“The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.”

Marguerite Yourcenar book The Abyss

The Highroad, p. 11
The Abyss (1968)

“You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.”

Benedict Freedman book Mrs. Mike

Source: Mrs. Mike

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises.”

Jorge Amado (1912–2001) Brazilian writer

Source: Gabriela, Clavo y Canela

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”

D.T. Suzuki (1870–1966) Japanese author and philosopher

“Life is only lived full-time by women with children.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

“The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.”

Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”

Andre Dubus III book House of Sand and Fog

Source: House of Sand and Fog

“Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

Related topics