Quotes About Wonder

He wanted to go home, to sleep. It would feel much better to give up, give in. Then he remembered faintly that this was exactly the Devil's advice. What if all this sweet winding down was the way the Devil buried wonder? Wonder was life.

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.

My heart broke a little at her unblemished view of life: She still believed in innocent secrets, the heady rush of a good mystery, and happily ever after... (I wasn't about to disabuse her of those sweet notions.)...Little girls should be allowed to dream.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Si je pouvais, nature, être seulement un homme devant toi ; alors, cela vaudrait bien la peine d'être homme !

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

Sono fantasmi se sono la felicità?

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

Wonder shows in the light of our eyes. Without it, they become dull and old.

Only when life is explored in awe, enjoyed in abundance and appreciated to its fullest can we say we have truly lived.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

That is, nobody but angels: they are always on deck when there is a miracle to the fore...

April is a time of wonder, when the spring peepers emerge from hibernation and begin to call, when robins and redwing blackbirds come back north, and when new green life appears. That is one of the greatest of all wonders, the growth of a bud and a leaf from a seed or a root that has lain dormant in the earth all winter.

Isn't the Grand Canyon just gorges?

The object of true art is to charm the imagintion...

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.

...his gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet, — or seem likely to do it in this state of existence, — a few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.