Quotes About Wonder

A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music

Shepherds buried the sun in the naked forest. With a net of hair A fisherman hauled the moon from the icy pond. The pale man dwells In a blue crystal, his cheek at rest against his stars, Or he bows his head in crimson sleep. But the black flight of birds always touches The watcher, the holiness of blue flowers; The nearby silence thinks forgotten things, extinguished angels. Again the brow turns night in moonlit stone; A radiant youth, The sister appears in autumn and black putrefaction.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

Was this his face, and these the finding eyes That plucked a new world from the rolling seas?

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

The dusk had arrived on the wings of a night moth, silent and soft. The sky above me darkened to a deep, beautiful purple. Stars glowed high above, and below them, as if inspired by their light, tiny fireflies awoke and crawled from their shelter in the leaves.

He went to the lake again. He found some sort of magic freshwater clams in it. He's very excited about it." Conlan shrugged.

It's a lovely day and we're under siege. People are trying to murder us. Her eyes shone with excitement. Isn't it marvelous?

He said he'd met a girl with stardust on her robe, and when he looked into her eyes, he saw the universe looking back.

Your ignorance is staggering. I sometimes wonder how you survived to sixteen years of age. I'm curious, did you live most of them in Bubble Wrap?

If the skies were able to dream, they would dream of dragons.

The universe is vast and we're its greatest mystery

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy

Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence the more often and more steadily one reflects on them, the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.

I love you. I saw you that night in the garden, and I knew you were magic like in dreams.

But whatever she was I loved her and was committed to her and had always been, here and out beyond the stars, those stars behind stars behind stars which I had seen that night when I lay on the rocks and the golden sky slowly turned the universe inside out.

Only stories and magic really endure.