Quotes About Wonder

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

You can feel the stars and the infinity of the sky. Since life, in spite of everything, is like a fairytale.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream

Mi occorre anche una notte stellata con dei cipressi

One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad; it was- beautiful. The deep blue sky was flicked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. On the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, rose, brighter, flashing more like jewels than they do even in Paris. The sea was a very deep ultramarine.

Admire as much as you can; most people do not admire enough.

If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

Dichiaro solennemente di non saperne nulla, ma dico che la vista delle stelle, mi fa sognare tanto semplicemente quanto quei punti neri che nelle carte geografiche rappresentano città e villaggi. E mi dico: perché i punti luminosi del firmamento dovrebbero esserci meno accessibili che i punti neri della carta di Francia?

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

It's incredible," she sighed. My eyebrows brushed Isabelle's eyebrows. "It's incredible the way I'm seeing you

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

La presunción, tan ingenua, de la ciencia del siglo xviii de poder disolver cualquier sospecha de misterio en el mundo ha dado paso, si no a la humildad, por lo menos a una mayor prudencia.

Once upon a time, before pizzerias or Taco Bells, there was a troll named Rumpelstiltskin who began to wonder what a human baby would taste like.