Quotes About Astonishes

Honour often seems a highly artificial convention, but life in any level of society where it has been abandoned astonishes by its tortuousness

It astonishes me how delicately you can make distinctions between women. There was a marvellous paragraph on that. Among one hundred women you will distinguish five. It is more than Don Juan ever did.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

none seemed irreverent enough to address the situation of being a baby, of caretaking a baby. Do castration and the Phallus tell us the deep Truths of Western culture or just the truth of how things are and might not always be? It astonishes and shames me to think that I spent years finding such questions not only comprehensible, but compelling.