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Quotes About Wondering

Have you heard the one about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac , who was pacing & pacing thru the night , wondering if there's really a 'Dog' ?
~ Steven Wright
Daniel's face looked up at him wondering, his arms around the shuddering form of Owen. They were beautiful. What had he been thinking of to abuse them? Hadn't his original purpose been to defend the children of humanity, to be their advocate? Why this?
~ Storm Constantine
The question that is upon my lips (please forgive me) is the doubt in your heart
~ Jeremy Aldana
Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.
~ Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman
...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
So lately, been wonderingWho will be there to take my placeWhen I'm gone, you'll need love To light the shadows on your face.
~ The Calling
blurt out was "Why?
~ Mitch Albom
Caminó lentamente, despidiéndose de cada portal, de cada esquina, preguntándose se la trampa de tiempo sería cierta y algún día sólo sería capaz de recordar lo bueno, de olvidar la soledad que tantas veces le había perseguido en aquellas calles.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'd long wondered if I were really a civilized person, though I kept striving to be one. I knew that at the moment I'd said I would take care of Lorena myself, I had meant it. There was something pretty savage inside me, and I'd always controlled it. My grandmother had not raised me to be a murderess.
~ Charlaine Harris
How's that, Motella." "Ooh, like wondering how it must be, getting into bed with somebody, who has another person's name? tattooed on his body?" "No problem unless all you do in bed is read," muttered Lourdes.
~ Thomas Pynchon
How long did they stand there? Both, as it were, caught in that circle of unearthly light, understanding each other perfectly, creatures of another world, and wondering what they were to do in this one with all this blissful treasure that burned in their bosoms and dropped, in silver flowers, from their hair and hands?
~ Katherine Mansfield
You mean you're wondering if he took advantage of his wife's absence to invite over multiple lovers? What a Casanova!' Ikai slapped his knee. 'But I'd have to say, I really doubt it. Mashiba might've been a chain-smoker, but he wasn't the type to smoke two cigarettes at once.
~ Keigo Higashino
When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
~ Ken Knabb
Everyone watched, wondering if this could be the same lunatic who'd nearly berthed his ornithopter in the restaurant. I swallowed, for it seemed he was headed straight for my table. He pulled off his helmet and a mass of dark auburn hair spilled out. Off came the goggles, and I was looking at the beaming face of Kate de Vries.
~ Kenneth Oppel
My God is a child, so wonder not that the spirit of this time in me is incensed to mockery and scorn.
~ C.G. Jung
It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.
~ Iris Murdoch
Ah'm thinkin that we've lost, and there's bleak times ahead, and ah'm wonderin: what the fuck am ah gaunny dae wi the rest ay ma life?
~ Irvine Welsh
Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.
~ Isaac Asimov
The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
~ Evan Esar
Wondering and writing constitute positive madness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I spent the past two decades wondering why France, as a country managed in a top-down manner by an oversized state, could fare so well in so many fields. It is the country of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, after all, the grand dreamer of a state that infiltrates everything. Indeed the current culture is ultra-interventionist, sort of "if it ain't broke, fix it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
did he want her to join him in his mission of ending unworthy scythes? Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.
~ Neal Shusterman
Y levanto los ojos hacia la ventana y pienso, ya no sé dónde estás, y sigo andando y me pregunto adónde va la vida cuando se detiene
~ Charles Bukowski