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Quotes About Wonder

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
~ Lucretius
It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.
~ Marion Dudley Cran
Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.
~ Neil Young
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
~ Patti Smith
Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it.
~ R.L. LaFevers
Wonder - the sensation of being whisked out of time and space...to be bathed in ... epiphanous delight.
~ Robert Dessaix
I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.
~ Stephenie Meyer
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
~ Susan Glaspell
This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.
~ Terry Pratchett
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
~ Arnold Bennett
Love is a wonderous thing. It moves mountains and stills a baby's cries. It beats inside every human's heart, yet is more precious than gold. It cannot be bought or sold or stolen. It keeps us alive.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Flint snorted. The kender was beginning to make sence, a fact that caused the dwarf to shake his head and wonder if maybe he shouldn't lie down somewhere out in the sun.
~ Margaret Weis
Love having another world to think of!
~ Margaret Weis
Je pense souvent à cette image que je suis seule à voir encore et dont je n'ai jamais parlé. Elle est toujours là dans le même silence,émerveillante. C'est entre toutes celle qui me plaît de moi-même, celle où je me reconnais, où je m'enchante.
~ Marguerite Duras
Rimasi meravigliato nell'osservare come fosse piccolo quel viso dal quale veniva tanta luce; seduta così sotto la loggia, la gatta ai piedi sul lembo della veste, sembrava un'immagine da pittura di un genere non ancora inventato.
~ Maria Bellonci
I don't want to be dead. I'm curious about how things will turn out. This is good, right?
~ Marian Keyes
The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.
~ Marianne Fredriksson
discovering Antarctica, its penguin kings and icy spires...
~ Marianne Moore
a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.
~ Marianne Williamson
Basta imaginar lo que sería el mundo si nos viéramos unos a otros y pensáramos, "¡Sé que hay algo maravilloso ahí dentro!
~ Marianne Williamson
Nothing is more strange than truth — nothing, at times, more terrible!
~ Marie Corelli
Where do starfish come from?" asked Sam. "From the sky," answered Stella. "Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea." "Weren't the stars afraid of drowning?" asked Sam. "No," said Stella. "They all learned how to swim.
~ Marie-Louise Gay
Though I loved the wired world, the new-wave librarians, the avatars and activists, I turned into a dinosaur in that library. I couldn't help it; I was an old-fashioned writer who loved the ancient books summoned via pneumatic tubes, the archives, the quiet. I had found something rare there: an inexhaustible wonder.
~ Marilyn Johnson