Quotes About Wonder

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

The element of uncertainty is one of night's special pleasures.

Resurrected from the dead. If miracles could happen, this was one of them; but we no longer knew the right way to accommodate a miracle. We hardly realized that a miracle can be met other than with broken phrases and mocking looks.

Als brauchte irgendeine Erscheinung der Natur unser Lob, unsre Aufmerksamkeit, ja, auch nur unsre Anwesenheit.

Knowing the seriousness of our disease will make us all the more amazed at the greatness of our Physician.

Schön eigentlich alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet. (Sebenarnya segalanya itu indah, selama manusia melihatnya dengan cinta).

When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

I skip down the driveway, hurry up the road, linger on the bridge for a moment, looking down at the reflection of the sky like mercury on the dark water, the foaming white suds near the rocks. Ice glistens on tree branches, frost webs over dried grasses in a sparkling net. The evergreens, dusted with the light snow that fell last night, are like a forest of Christmas trees. For the first time, I am struck by the austere beauty of this place.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one thank.

Where there are no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.

Leaves fell around me, red and gold stars falling through the mist.

Truth was, if you were going to believe something, it was best to believe in stuff that made the world seem a more interesting place.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Golden

The experience profoundly changed my perspective. In the hospital, I hadn't perceived the anxiety and foreboding that permeated birth until I experienced the impact of its absence among the midwives. The peace, wonder, and intimacy were infinitely greater. What a compelling difference!

God Only Knows the Issue.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

Childhood is a slum and they love it.

When you're out on the bare ocean and you see a whale breach and blow, you've seen glory.

We are living through such times that those yet born will look back in wonder

The fire melts into velvety blackness. There are stars in the blackness, and I want to count them one by one, but they're dancing too fast...