Quotes About Wonder

Let me return to childhood and stay there forever, caring nothing for the values that grown men give to things or for the relationships that grown men establish between them.

I don't know what the point is of this journey I was obliged to make between one night and another, in the company of the entire universe.

The art of the child is in non-realization.

Sabio es quien monotoniza la existencia, puesto que entonces cada pequeño incidente tiene un privilegio de maravilla. El cazador de leones no tiene aventuras más allá del tercer león. Para mi cocinero monótono, una escena de bofetadas en la calle tiene siempre algo de apocalipsis modesto. Quien no ha salido nunca de Lisboa viaja al infinito en el tranvía cuando va a Bemfica77 y, si un día va a Cintra,78 siente que ha ido a Marte.

Ideea de a c?l?tori m? îngreÅ£oÅŸeaz?. Am v?zut tot ceea ce niciodat? nu v?zusem. Am v?zut deja tot ceea ce înc? nu am v?zut.

Privirea mea albastr? ca bolta cerului E calm? ca apele însorite. Chiar aÈ™a este, albastr? È™i calm?, Cum nici nu întreab? È™i nici nu se mir?... Dac? eu m-aÈ™ întreba È™i m-aÈ™ minuna Nu s-ar mai ivi pe câmpuri flori noi ?i nici nu s-ar schimba ceva în soare ca s? devin? astfel È™i mai mândru.

Una sola cosa mi meraviglia più della stupidità con cui la maggior parte degli uomini vive la sua vita: l'intelligenza che c'è in questa stupidità.

Those of us who are curious about life, let us peer out of every door and window, in the weary foreknowledge that we will see nothing new or beautiful.

I lift my eyes and look at the stars, which make no sense at all.

The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in the side. A sense of the dramatic, of the tragic, of the infinite, has descended upon us, filling us with grief, but even above grief, wonder. Our plans were so beautifully laid out, ready to be carried to action, but with magnificent certainty God laid them aside and said, You have forgotten - Mine? A meditation on her fathers death.

Parker had never before felt the least motion of wonder in himself. Until he saw the man at the fair, it did not enter his head that there was anything out of the ordinary about the fact that he existed. Even then it did not enter his head, but a peculiar unease settled in him. It was as if a blind boy had been turned so gently in a different direction that he did not know his destination had been changed.

It is God's new creative act, his great reclamation project that is even greater than the creation itself, because whereas we are "wonderfully created," we are "yet more wonderfully restored."30

As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.

I'm very into fantasy films.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

I do like fantasy films.

I like fantasy.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.