The tidal wave of deepest souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

In this dim world of clouding cares,
We rarely know, till bewildered eyes
See white wings lessening up the skies.
The angels with us unawares. [ Gerald Massey ]

Keep together here, lest, running thither.
We unawares run into danger's mouth. [ Milton ]

Great thoughts, great feelings come to them,
Like instincts, unawares. [ M. Milnes ]

Careless men let their end steal upon them unawares, and unprovided. [ Proverb ]

Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. [ Pascal ]

Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. [ Plutarch ]