Life is a box of chocolates?

Question

I've never really understood this saying.. (it's from the movie forrest gump).

"life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."

Umm.. well of course you know what you're gonna get --- Chocolates!

Am i missing something?

Can you please explain to me the deeper meaning of this saying?

Thank you.. :)

Answer 1

What a coincidence!!! My teacher taught us about this quote today in school. This quote means that you may get something in life which you don't like. The box of choclates contains many different flavors where you like some and some you really hate. When you put your hand and pick a chocolate, you never know what flavor you are going to get. You may get the one you like or you may also get the chocolate you hate the most. So, that is how life is like. We don't know whats gonna happen next.

Answer 2

I think he is referring to the filling inside the chocolate. I mean I know if you really wanted to you could read the card and figure out which has cherries or which has almonds but that kinda take th fun out of it!

Answer 3

It's a rather straight-forward quote.  Forrest isn't exactly a 'deep' guy.

By saying you never know what you're going to get, he's referring to the interior of the chocolate.  Variety packs always offer a splay of chocoaltes, each containing a different filling.  It's a surprise, much like life in which you never know what's going to come at you next.

Answer 4

Well have you ever recieved a box of chocolates for valetines day?

Inside the Boxes of chocolates are a bunch of different flavors, some have cherries inside, some coconut, some just solid dark chocolate, you catch my drift right?

Well anyways, it can be annoying because some of those chocolates are super good and some are pretty gross, so you have to just grab one and see what you get.

In other words " LIFE" ( being the chocolates)

You never know what your gonna get.

Ha Ha, i hope you understand what i just typed. I hope it helps.