Quotes About Wonder

The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depths by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

Omne ignotum pro magnifico17

If the confidence of children can be gained, and they are led to speak freely, it is surprising how many claim to have seen fairies.

When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze.

I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.

When I unwrapped the moth from its funeral shroud, it was the same startlingly lovely creature as on the day I had entombed it. Everything about it seemed beautiful and perfect, and so utterly unchanged.

To me, he seemed to see the sap bleeding from the trunks of the pine trees, and the circle of brightness in the sky where the sun was smothered by clouds.

Zašto me tako ?udno umirivao pogled na njega?

Waarom zou een wonder geen wonder zijn alleen omdat een ander het niet ziet?

De hele wereld is vol mensen die hun hele leven op zoek blijven naar het wonder van de liefde zonder het ooit te zien. Het is heel simpel en vanzelfsprekend, maar onvindbaar voor wie ernaar zoekt.

How can they whip cheese?

You have made your magic now

It was like exploring a place that you have seen in a dream, where everything is just where you expect it and yet everything is a surprise.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

What does the absolute mean? Something that is, and of which (under pain of punishment) we dare not ask further whence and why it is. A precious rarity for professors of philosophy!

Reflection on memory makes the self an object of wonder—an astonishment previously reserved for the contemplation of the world.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.

And we, my dears, everything we are and ever will be are just a twinkle in her eye,.

Ja vi?a grib?tu, lai piepild?s k?da maza v?l?šan?s, t? b?tu- Nezin?t. Nezin?t, ko katra diena vi?ai sniegs. Nezin?t, kur vi?a b?s r?t, n?kamaj? m?nes? vai gad?. P?c desmit gadiem. Nezin?t, k? vi?as ce?š pagriez?sies un kas gaida aiz l?kuma.

they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly adult. They looked out at the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.

and I vaguely remembered, from the occasions in my childhood when they had brought me along, how dense and enormous and exciting they seemed.

This was one place where I knew I had found something worthy of awe.

I never once gave a thought to the days when I believed that bulbs were starburst patterns of color, because that was what all light looked to me.