Quotes About Wonder

They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars.

Where was the line? Between self-transformation so great as to turn a longing for death into childlike wonder … and death itself, and the handing on of the joys and burdens he could no longer shoulder to someone new?

There are times when it's worth putting aside the endless myopic navel-gazing that occupies so much literature in order to look out at the universe itself and value it for what it is

The ancients advised love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods. Tough lesson, that one. I

Maybe it was more than that. Maybe some things shouldn't be explained.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace.

Letter 68 A pod of whales was lying like long reclining Buddhas on the sea. My sister and I put our ears to the bottom of the boat so we could listen to their songs. We turned to my grandfather and asked, "What do their song mean?" "The whales do not sing because they have an answer," he said. "They sing because they have a song.

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell dont understand everything.

There's a whole world all around more interesting, wonderful, terrifying, mysterious, amazing than any novel ever written. Pay attention. Take a chance. Dare life.

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.

because you've chosen poetry, you're condemned to wonder at skills and felicities of language or imagination in the poems of others that you yourself may never achieve, no matter how hard you work toward them—things that will always be beyond your reach but also will always be luring you on.

Wonder made the old chicka-chicka-boom beat so potent it sounded like a syncopated version of Judgment Day.

Now what looks like smoke is only mare's tails—clouds streaming—and as the season changes, my young dog and I wonder if raindrops might not be shattered lightning.

Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles

So much cruelty. She'd seen too much of it in this place. Sometimes she wondered whether it covered her heart like mold by now.

Užtemimas jiems buvo nuostabumo priešingyb?. Atrod? papras?iausiai teisinga, kad dangus ir Dievas pamin?jo j? sielvart?.

As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day

When she reaches into the tub to swirl the salt, their eyes meet, only for a second, but in that second she reads both gratitude and amazement. The idea is outlandish. She amazes him. How is that possible, when he is the most amazing thing that ever lived?

Alangkah misteriusnya hidup. Dan lebih misterius lagi cinta.

?çgüdüleri taraf?ndan yönetilen varl?klara ait eylemlerin karma??kl??? bizi hayrete dü?ürür.

Inmóvil, absorto en una contemplación muda, yo permanecía aún con los ojos fijos en la figura de aquella mujer, cuya especial belleza había herido mi imaginación de un modo tan extraordinario.