Quotes About Wonder

We — you and I — are fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful (Psalm 139:1 – 5, 13 – 14).

of what waits just around the next corner.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants? YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Magic never dies. It merely fades away.

Sometimes I think a man could wander across the disc all his life and not see everything there is to see,' said Twoflower. 'And now it seems there are lots of other worlds as well. When I think I might die without seeing a hundredth of all there is to see it makes me feel,' he paused, then added, 'well, humble, I suppose. And very angry, of course.

NO. YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.