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Quotes About Wonder

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
~ Shirley MacLaine
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
~ Marina Warner
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
~ Thomas Aquinas
It's filled with magic that's how I know if something's real.
~ Nikki Rowe
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.
~ N. Scott Momaday
What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.
~ Werner Herzog
If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.
~ Brian Selznick
By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream
~ Gustave Flaubert
I have just created something totally illogical.
~ Ray Kinsella
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Come with me while the moon is on the sea The night is young and so are we Dreams come true in Blue Hawaii And mine could all come true This magic night of nights with you
~ Leo Robin
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.
~ T.L. Rese
Look closely Jane. This is Majesty Park, the city of wonder. Here you are free to dream dreams and follow them wherever they may take you.
~ Unknown
Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?
~ David Hewson, Macbeth
Jesus came to give us life so unimaginably beyond anything that we could ever hope to conceptualize that wonder cannot help but be our constant companion.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them. If you must sleep through a third of your life, why should you sleep through your dreams, too?
~ Stephen LaBerge
You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.
~ Dr. Seuss
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
~ Stephen King
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
~ J. J. Abrams
I just find the world very exciting and beautiful everywhere.
~ Eric Ripert
I've always been excited to know how we got here.
~ John C. Mather
To be existing at all is beautiful simply because of how complicated and unexplainable being alive really is.
~ Rain Dove