Quotes About Amazement

When it's over, I want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

When it over, I want to say:all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular,and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. from When the death comes

Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell others.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us-- as soft as feathers-- that we are instantly weary of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes, not without amazement, and let ourselves be carried, as through the translucence of mica, to the river that is without the least dapple or shadow-- that is nothing but light--scalding, aortal light-- in which we are washed and washed out of our bones.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Prepare to hear of occurrences which are usually deemed marvellous.

If Gertie van Coevorden had two brain cells, each would be amazed to know of the other's existence.

Some guys surprise you like that.

Il faut naître tous les matins, comme l'enfant qui dit C'est beau ça.

You talk about her as if she is the Notre Dame Cathedral! She is. And the Statue of Liberty and Abbey Road and the best burrito of your life. Didn't you know?

Well, Pat, you aren't going to believe this…

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

Wonder does not make one industrious, for to feel astonished is to be disturbed.

There is really nothing that people get used to so readily as miracles, once they have experienced them two or three times.

Oh-my-fucking-God!

My first thought was: Holy fucking shit.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed.

I've got friends all around the world, but it still never ceases to amaze me when I come to a place on the other side of the planet that I've always imagined going to, and to get there and be meeting people all over on the street who know me - it's very exciting and humbling.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.