Quotes About Wonder

What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things.

But it cut him, all the same, to see one of his own so upset by the sight of what other children craved and he could not help but wonder if she'd be brave enough or able for what the world had in store.

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Actually even the worst childhood is always enchanted, how awful.

I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.

En este instante-ya estoy envuelta en un vago deseo difuso de maravilla y en millares de reflejos de sol en el agua que brota de la fuente de un jardín maduro de perfumes, jardín y sombras que invento ya y ahora y que son el medio concreto de hablar en este mi instante de vida. Mi estado es el de jardín con agua que fluye.

At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.

Qué soy? Soy: estar de pie ante un espanto. Soy: lo que he visto. No entiendo y temo entender, la materia del mundo me espanta, con sus planetas y sus cucarachas

When living comes to pass, one wonders: but was that it? And the answer is: that is not only it, that is exactly it.

Life just is for me, and I don't understand what I'm saying. And so I adore it. ——————

Why is a dog free? Because it is the living mystery that doesn't wonder about itself.

But there are questions I asked myself as a child and that were never answered, they still echo mournfully: did the world make itself? But where did it make itself? in what place? And if it was by the energy of God - how did it begin? could it be like now when I am being and at the same time making myself? It's because of the absence of an answer that I get so bothered.

Qué era la poesía, en realidad, esa palabra vergonzosa? ¿Era encontrarse cuando, casualmente, caía una lluvia repentina sobre la ciudad? ¿O tal vez mirar al mismo tiempo, mientras tomaba un refresco, el rostro de una mujer que pasaba por la calle? ¿O incluso encontrarse casualmente en la vieja noche de luna y viento.

Even though I know that a plant produces flowers, I am still surprised by nature's secret paths.

I thought of something so beautiful that I couldn't understand it. And I ended up forgetting what it was.

I thought of something so beautiful that I couldn't even understand it. And I ended up forgetting what it was.

And I am in the world as free and slender as a deer on the plain. I get up as soft as a breath of air, raise my sleepy flower head, my feet light, I cross fields beyond the earth, world, time, God.

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Love is the greatest Joy of Discovery one can feel!

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

either I can be like some traveler of the olden days, who was faced with a stupendous spectacle, all, or almost all, of which eluded him, or worse still, filled him with scorn and disgust; or I can be a modern traveler, chasing after the vestiges of a vanished reality....A few hundred years hence, in this same place another traveler, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.