Quotes About Astonishment

I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'

Lady Gaga reached out to us saying how much she loves our music, and we were just like, 'What?! She knows who we are?!' That's how mindblown we were.

I'm always shocked by what people react to.

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Good fucking Christ. What is this, an iPhone?" He

To his great astonishment, the door opened and Christine Daae appeared, wrapped in furs, with her face hidden in a lace veil, alone. She closed the door behind her, but Raoul observed that she did not lock it.

For in general mortals have a great power of being astonished at the presence of an effect toward which they have done everything, and at the absence of an effect toward which they had done nothing but desire it.

H]aving early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact. And she had already come to take life very much as a comedy in which she had a proud, nay, a generous resolution not to act the mean or treacherous part.

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down on you.

Wonders will never cease.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Well, you could have knocked me sideways with a feather.

Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.

FAPO- for amazement purposes only

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

That's it!" cried Fizban. "I remembered!" Suddenly the air was filled with strands of sticky, floating cobweb.