Quotes About Wonder

Life is fragile, fleeting, and precious. And to live at all is miracle enough.

Life is a mystery to lived, not a problem to be solved.

I want to be closer to the sky. Closer to the pink moon. And closer to the stars that shine over South Bend, which turn out to be the very same ones that twinkle over Brooklyn.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

God or the mysterious bounty of the world...

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The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives. But

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Our mortality does not call for panic, but for a sense of awe.

It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded...

Als we ons met de instelling van de reiziger [met ontvankelijkheid als voornaamste kenmerk] door onze eigen omgeving bewogen, zou deze wellicht niet minder interessant blijken dan de hoge bergpassen en de oerwouden vol vlinders in Humboldts Zuid-Amerika.

Everything is amazing—once.

Science should matter to us not only because it helps us to control parts of the world, but also because is shows us things that we will -never- master. [...] Nightly - perhaps after the main news bulletin and before the celebrity quiz - we might observe a moment of silence in order to contemplate the 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxies and the 3 septillion stars in the universe. [...] majestically unaware of everything we are and consolingly unaffected by all that tears us apart.

at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a word came to prominence by means of which it became possible to indicate a specific response towards precipices and glaciers, night skies and boulder-strewn deserts. In their presence one was likely to experience, and could count on being understood if one reported that one had felt, a sense of the sublime.

The important books should be those that leave us wondering, with relief and gratitude, how the author could possibly have known so much about our lives.

When I consider … the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me ['l'infinie immensité des espaces que j'ignore et qui m'ignorent'], I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there, now rather than then. Who put me here? Pascal, Pensées

The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]

With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

There is beauty,' she said, 'in the least beautiful of things.

There is beauty,' she said, 'in the least beautiful things.