Quotes About Astonishment

In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.

I say, Watson,' he whispered, 'would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?' 'Not in the least,' I answered in astonishment. 'Ah, that's lucky,' he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

Wow. So you didn't expect it? No. Not at all. Were you like, 'Fuck!

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

He came home quite gloomy, though, because the pointers were winning all down the line, ' ' Ell-ooping all over the country like a lot of gray'ounds,' is what he told me. 'Don't they find birds?' I asked, and I gathered from what he said that when a pointer stumbled over a bevy, he stopped in astonishment.

some things are too wonderful even for a child, and freedom's one of them

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by life.

Every Spring is the only Spring, a perpetual astonishment. It bursts upon a man every year, thought Cadfael, contemplating it with delight in spite of all anxieties, as though it had never happened before, but had just been shown by God how to do it, and tried, and found the impossible possible.

Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together

Doug's office was a Pandora's box that, once opened, gushed with condemning information. Emily was nearly as stunned by the ease of her access to it, as by its quantity. He hadn't camouflaged anything. It was all there for the taking. Apparently it hadn't occurred to the bastard that she would look.

Have you some garlic?' Prudence asked. 'Garlic?' echoed Jane in astonishment. 'Certainly not! Imagine a clergyman and his wife going about the parish smelling of garlic!'

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to a childlike state of astonishment. I think all this is just nonsense. Magic isn't meaningful or important other than how you're performing it in that moment.

I'm shocked at being recognized.

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

Magic really helped me.

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

No cabía duda alguna de la transformación en las caras de los cerdos. Los animales, atravesados por el asombro, pasearon su mirada del cerdo al hombre, y nuevamente del hombre al cerdo, una y otra vez, pero les fue imposible hallar diferencia alguna entre uno y otro.

La santé c'est l'innocence organique. Elle doit être perdue, comme toute innocence, pour qu'une connaissance soit possible. Il en est de la physiologie comme de toute science, selon Aristote, elle procède de l'étonnement. Mais l'étonnement proprement vital c'est l'angoisse suscitée par la maladie.

Yes, love, responded his sister cheerfully, but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.

There's another surprise!" Sam said. "I've seen your Mystery Man!