Quotes About Astonishment

Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all.

I was surprised that you made that comment. It seemed uncharacteristic of you. . . .

we're a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before...

Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pantomimic celebration, the immigrant, as in every moment of his life, arriving eternally on the shore of his Self.

For an instant I was dumbfounded. 

Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.

A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks his own finger, rubs the blood onto the scab, smears it all over the patient

Earl, who seemed to be in an almost perpetual state of amazement at the things he said, shook his head again.

El misterio es éste: ¿por qué yo quedé mutilada y ella no? Me siento recién salida de una catástrofe. ¿Por qué no olvido? No sé por dónde empezar a olvidar. Aun estoy asombrada de no estar loca. Pero ¿se puede vivir siempre así, asombrada, enloqueciendo de asombro?

A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

It's hard to comprehend beating Barcelona 8-2.

That was a screaming meemie

You should have seen the look on your skull...

My eyebrows went past my hairline. In fact, I have not located them since. I think they are hiding behind my ears.

Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.

Into this life of cruel wonder sent, Without a word to tell us what it meant, Sent back again without a reason why - Birth, life, and death - 'twas all astonishment.

he went to clean up the library with a fellow janitor; but the moment he entered the huge room, he gasped, put his heads to his temples and fell down on one knee, gasping, "My head! My head!

Tall bird stalking. Every five minutes, half a step. The bird was a piece of standing driftwood. Even the fish forgot. When the heron at last jabbed out, Robin shrieked. The strike crossed two meters with barely a lean-in from the bird. It came back upright, a meal the size of astonishment dangling from its mouth. The fish seemed too big to slip down the bird's throat. But that baggy gullet opened, and in another moment, not even a bulge betrayed what had happened.

And then the words that would never weaken and never go away: Can you believe where we are?

You have a right to be present. A right to attend. A right to be astonished.

The classic Ebola face made the monkeys look as if they had seen something beyond comprehension.