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“Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The price of stability is unpreparedness.”
― Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

“It happened so fast. No one had time to do anything, but watch.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“But no one can prepare for the worst. The worst doesn't only dash hopes; it tears through everything in ways that are almost meant to hurt, to punish, to shame. Despite my most sobering forecasts, life can still play the cruelest card and scuttle everything—and just when I thought we were sailing past the shoals.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.
But she already knew the answer to that.
Nobody was ever ready.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. It assumes that preparation against danger is in itself a good, and that men, like nations, are the better for staggering through life fully armed. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.

Margaret hoped that for the future she would be less cautious, not more cautious, than she had been in the past.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“The coins were completely unprepared for this and were sadly deceived by their own inertia.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

“We were ready for crazy, but not that kind of crazy.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Good strategy depends on knowing the enemy, on knowing the enemy's nature. In making this general observation, which deceptively resembles a jeremiad, I am not advocating the invasion of Iran or Syria. I am not suggesting that the invasion of Iraq was the right move. I rather think that America is morally and intellectually unprepared for war of any kind, and should avoid engagement if possible until it can put its own house in order. Wars are fought and won within the human heart, often before any fighting begins. That is why today's intellectual and moral trends are so alarming.
J.R.Nyquist”
― J.R.Nyquist

“Nature ensures joy and pain to everyone. When you are only expecting joy in your life, you can’t handle pain and any painful episode will seem to be even more painful to you. However, when you are mentally prepared for pain, it can’t make you suffer easily. If most people suffer, it is because they are always expecting pleasure and happiness in their life. Hence, when suffering knocks at their door, they are unprepared for it and suffer immense pain.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“Good things seldom catch people flat-footed, they locate those working hard and smart.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as a time when we learned as a species that we had worried over the wrong things: the hole in the ozone layer, the melting of the ice caps, the West Nile and swine flu and killer bees. But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”
― Karen Thompson Walker

“Opportunities presented to an unprepared person become a fairy tale of what might have been.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“The pandemic revealed the incompetence of government.”
― Steven Magee

“Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men