Quotes About Wonder

A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

When God designed the Marquesas... he must have been high.

Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.

Who could say what went on, at sunrise, in the thick woods below the planet-searching dome of the Observatory, which saw only space and stars?

It came to him to wonder, though only for a second, why the mercurial Mercurio kept about him such a symbol of order and changeless.

He, with his hair like the earliest sunrise, his fair complexion, his eyes gilded by lashes longer than their own, was like a being from another world.

I never saw a girl so beautiful." "Nor I. And for looks could be your sister. Much on that.

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free.

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

He knew that behind the skin of this world, there was another. And in that world the children were laughing.

He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different.

He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different. The disease hung on them like dried dung.

I turned and saw her—the beautiful woman who was either a Fury of a totally different kind than any I'd imagined, or an angel.

The night snows stars and the earth creaks.

Sometimes—there's God—so quickly!

Lady Danbury shushed him with a wave of her hand. "How many great mysteries are there in life, really?" No one answered, so Colin guessed, "Forty-two?

Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

There is much in our world that can't be explained. Certain events defy reason or possibility. What seems unbelievable can occur before our very eyes and leave us speechless with awe.

there has to be some sort of magic in the universe when incredible things unfold as they do.