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Quotes About Wonder

When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?
~ Michelle Madow, Timeless
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
~ Steven Wright
Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
~ Steven Wright
When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
~ Alan Rickman
Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"
~ Dylan Moran
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
~ Steven Wright
Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "What for?"
~ Steven Wright
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
~ Steven Wright
I don't know if you've ever fallen asleep whilst eating a plate of cauliflower, and then woken up, and thought you were in the clouds.
~ Milton Jones
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
~ Steven Wright
Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
~ Steven Wright
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
~ Tim Vine
Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.
~ Rumi
I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.
~ Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
~ Jose Luis Borges
I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?
~ Gail Carson Levine, Ever
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!
~ Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Jumping Jehoshaphat. O Holy Night.
~ Patricia Briggs, Night Broken
I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I'd just been born?
~ Sol Luckman, Beginner's Luke
I look up in the sky, what do I see? Well blue.
~ Omer Abazi
Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.
~ Nanea Hoffman
She had so many freckles that Erskine wondered if she might have stolen some from other children.
~ Ned Beauman, Boxer, Beetle