Quotes About Amazement

For it is the union of the ordinary and the miraculous that makes wonder.

The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we know exists but whose content we don't know. When we share it with other, it's as if we are in on the same secret. We look at each other in amazement or with knowing look. But it's impossible to specify what this secret is. Only the fact that there is a secret is of any importance. Beauty is based on the raw fact of the secret as such.

Minds were made for blowing.

that aspect of being that once was attuned to wonder.

You are blowing my mind.

Amazement could go no further. If Phryne had ridden in on a unicorn he would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Felmington. Well, no, not a unicorn. Not Phryne. A dragon, perhaps. He was sure that she could tame a dragon.

Wally! Isn't he wonderful?

Would a time ever come when I didn't feel I was dazzled by something incredibly wonderful every time I set eyes on him.

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

Everyone stops for a giant on a unicycle.

When we say that human behaviour is unpredictable, we are right, because it is too complex to be predicted, especially by ourselves. Our intense sensation of internal liberty, as Spinoza acutely saw, comes from the fact that the ideas and images which we have of ourselves are much cruder and sketchier than the detailed complexity of what is happening within us. We are the source of amazement in our own eyes

Stacy just watches her body in amazement as the hand clutches onto her leg and pulls. Another hand emerges and grabs her other thigh, trying to pull itself out of there.

Holy shit. It is like his mouth is falling down the stairs.

Having a child is, well, it's just profound. Even as they grow, you just stop and look at them and you keep thinking in absolute wonderment, Where did you come from? How is it possible you're here?

When he is sick and you stand by the bedside shaken with fear, when he sleeps and you lean over him held by the amazement of seeing this little boy who has your life, God is there, too; indeed all this love of yours is only God's love which you sense vaguely. He, the true father, is there; He is around and above and below the child; He is in his heart. You only love at all because God loves infinitely more.

Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché?

I know it was wonderful, but I don't know how I did it.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Golly, Peabody said under her breath, it's the great and powerful Oz.

It remained an amazement, her personal miracle, that he loved her.

Holy hypixia, Batman

You are more astounding than even my daydreams.

Christ on a crutch

Shut the front door!