Quotes About Wonder

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

A única luz provinha de uma estufa para onde o salão dava. Estava repleta de plantas tropicais, rodeando um lago cheio de peixes dourados. Um caminho de seixos circundava o lago. O sol, filtrado através das folhas verdes, projectava uma sumida luz esverdeada, como se eu estivesse no fundo do oceano. Tudo aquilo parecia apto a abandonar a luz do dia comum para explorar os mundos submersos.

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.

Have been reading Spengler exultantly. I never expected to experience such a sense of wonder, of vastness and richness.

Que ta vision soit à chaque instant nouvelle. Le sage est celui qui s'étonne de tout.

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

Am tr?it într-o uluire p?tima??.

Est-ce que vraiment, disait-elle, la terre est aussi belle que le racontent les oiseaux ?

There are more answers in heaven than questions on the lips of men.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

Ni siquiera a mí?!

At 11:30 at night we went out into the meadow to watch the moon through the mist. It was unbelievably beautiful.

East coasters ... attenders at the church of What Is

THE RED FAIRY BOOK

What children do love is ghost stories.

I believe they taught me as much about the infinite capacity of things to be surprising—and a great deal about the power of beauty.

Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel secure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody's tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?

Her head jerked around. It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise moment, you'd think it would never happen. She stood looking at a painting with a hand to her cheek, then watched the cat making its way across the sofa toward the bird. Life, it's so unlikely, she said, then turned to me again. It's so much better than we think, isn't it?

For is my story really so unusual? To wake each morning as if things had gone differently -- the dead come back, the lost returned, the beloved in our arms -- is it really any more magic than the ordinary madness of hope?

Who knows what constellation rises there, shaped like a question mark? The Question Mark, perhaps. Coming at the end of an ever-expanding cosmic doubt begun at the first keystroke of Time. If only there were another constellation: The Answer.

but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked.

He is not the best. But he is the best I ever had. Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel secure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody's tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?