Quotes About Wonder

The commonplace miracle: that so many common miracles take place.

The most important word in our planet's lexicon is why. We suspect this is true of other galaxies too.

Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.

So much world all at once--how it rustles and bustles! Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels, the flame, the flamingo, the flounder, the feather--

And how can we talk of order overall when the very placement of the stars leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?

Moje znaki szczególne to zachwyt i rozpacz.

Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.

Life, you're beautiful (I say) you just couldn't get more fecund, more befrogged or nightingaley, more anthillful or spoutsprouting,,, Oh how grassy is this hopper, how this berry ripely rasps... I tug at life by its leaf hem: will it stop for me, just once, momentarily forgetting to what end it runs and runs

Esperti degli spazi dalla terra alle stelle ci perdiamo nello spazio dalla terra alla testa.

Considering the bird, considering the stick, perhaps finally I'll also find out what it is with the mouths. (Why? How? What an absurdity!)

A przecie? serce mi biÅ'o. I ziaÅ' boskoÅ›ciÄ… bÄ™dÄ…c czymÅ› przepysznie urzekajÄ…cym i ujmujÄ…cym w pustce bezmiernej tej nocy, ?ródÅ'em ciepÅ'a i Å›wiatÅ'a oddychajÄ…cego. ?aska. Cud niepojÄ™ty: dlaczego niewa?no?? ta stalÄ… siÄ™ wa?na? Fryderyk? Czy Fryderyk to wiedziaÅ', czy widziaÅ', czy jemu tak?e to wpadÅ'o w oko?...

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic" [Magic in the moonlight movie - by Woody Allen]

That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.

Ruling human beings does not belong among those tasks that are impossible if one does it with knowledge, we know that Cyrus at any rate was willingly obeyed as an exceptional ruler, Cyrus was worthy of wonder and excelled in ruling human beings.

He was astonished likewise that they did not see it was impossible for men to comprehend anything of all those wonders, seeing they who have the reputation of being most knowing in them are of quite different opinions, and can agree no better than so many fools and madmen;

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it...I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning it's head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.