Quotes About Wonder

There would be the light of the snow. And then this incredible crescendo of birds.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets.- Bertha, The Father

I got up at 5 o'clock and saw the sun rise in a marvelous sky. A bright heart of light with a green rim fell on my bed three times.

Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me?

Awe, I discovered, was my favorite feeling. It was a rare experience, but when it happened, it was like an orgasm for the mind.

I placed my hand against the side of his precious, electric face and felt the stubble beneath my fingers. I was overwhelmed with the lust and wonder of it all.

Lately, I am receiving numerous calls each night from telemarketers. They're calling with the frequent urgency of dumped boyfriends. At this point, I cannot help but wonder, is the entire telemarketing industry one big, jilted, clingy gay guy?

All a rainbow is is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out.

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance.

It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.

We went on, cutting through the branches, and it was as if we were swimming through a sea of leaves, with the bushes as waves rising and falling and rising around us, and flinging their green sprays high to the treetops.

We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel all of a sudden that the earth is good and that it is not a burden to live.

Without mystery, there was no faith.

Nie wiedziaÅ'em nic, trwajÄ…c w niewzruszonej wierze, ?e nie minÄ…Å' czas okrutnych cudów.

Eden grew smaller. Beautiful, said the Captain. But, you know, going by the probability curve, there must be others even more beautiful.

Salimos al cosmos preparados para todo, es decir: para la soledad, la lucha, el martirio y la muerte. La modestia nos impide decirlo en vos alta, pero a veces pensamos, de nosotros mismos, que somos maravillosos - Solaris

So that where I once did not know who or what you were, now I wonder who I or we are, or what. What planet is this anyway, my dear?

Ho guardato in alto, oltre le insegne illuminate e, obliqua su un grattacielo, c'era la luna. Le ho detto: Cosa ci fa una ragazza come te in un posto come questo?

One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb.

he knew beyond words, beyond thought, beyond understanding that this wonder, this joy, this aching togetherness would never end.

pages of books--he steps inside magical stories, inviting readers to come along for the ride. Witty verse and verse and fantastical

Solitude is good for great minds but bad for small ones. It troubles brains that it does not illuminate." Yet Hugo was unable to go as far as his older English contemporary William Wordsworth, for whom solitude was a "bliss" that filled the heart with joy. Largely avoiding its extremes of hell and bliss, here I will explore the middle ground of solitude, which I consider a site of autonomy, wonder, contemplation, imagination, inspiration, and care.