Quotes About Astonishment

the gentle astonishment in her eyes, to which she had added, without daring to address it to anyone in particular, but so that everyone might enjoy his share of it,

Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject of my book would separate itself from me, leaving me free to choose whether I would form part of it or no; and at the same time my sight would return and I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible

You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Non sentì dolore, fu solo sorpresa nel vedere come era bello il sangue. Bello come una collana di rubini che nessun filo avrebbe potuto trattenere.

You've never seen surprise until you've looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.

What the Fross?" Whispered Kero

Well, I'll be damned. Oh, this is funny.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves.

nos conocemos tan precariamente que respiramos y eso nos asombra

As Will stood watching Pen, just before he turned away, his initial astonishment shifted into something quieter. Soon, she will see me; we'll sit someplace and talk, he thought. He felt like a kid who falls asleep on a long car trip, wakes up, and looks out the window to find that he's in a new place, or home, and that it's morning.

Pardon my French for a second, Chief, but what the fuck?

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Oh, dear God and baby Jesus in the manger, my eyes!" Dee shrieked. "My eyes!

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?'I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.''That, ' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.

We're alive!" Swedish told her. "I did not see that coming.

Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.

Oh. Oh, shit.

Jack turned, and it was just as well he was looking at me rather than at the audience for never, I swear, did such utter amazement fill a man's face. He gobbled like a turkey cock, his eyes almost started from his head, his jaw fell open and he stepped back as though he had been pricked.

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.