Wonder Quotes

On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?

~ Amit Kalantri

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

~ Marty Rubin

Without wonder, there's no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don't exercise your capacity for wonder... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that's starting to atrophy and die.

~ Brian Hodge

Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center.

~ Peter Matthiessen

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

~ Vera Nazarian

Sacred solitude; reading, wondering and writing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Children live life as a controlled experiment.

~ Jennifer Senior

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

~ Lord Dunsany

#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.

~ Will Advise

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

~ Jonathan Swift

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

~ Charles Baudelaire

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

~ Richard Dawkins

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

~ Anne Rice

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

~ Richard Dawkins

Because today, I think I'm leaning on the side of wonder.

~ Melina Marchetta

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

~ Dean Koontz

Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.

~ Meindert Dejong

I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called . . . bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and don't even know about the ground, and once you know the world is full of things like that, your life is never the same.

~ Terry Pratchett

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

~ Welwyn Wilton Katz

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

~ Marty Rubin

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

~ Tierney Gearon

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath’s vapor.In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.

~ Vera Nazarian

...the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

~ Herman Melville

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

~ Elisabeth Eaves

Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown.

~ Walter De La Mare

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

I shouldn't wonder if you didn't wonder much too much!

~ P.l. Travers

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

~ Yann Martel

It's these little things, they can pull you underLive your life filled with joy and wonderI always knew this altogether thunderWas lost in our little lives

~ R.e.m Sweetness Follows

Most of the big shore places were closed now. And there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of the ferryboat across the sound. And as the moon rose higher, the inessential houses began to melt away till gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes, A fresh green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams. For a transitory, enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face, for the last time in history, with something commensurate to its capacity for wonder.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.

~ Diet Eman

Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.

~ Marilynne Robinson

The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.

~ Russell Moore

The land of wonder is full of lights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.

~ Ben Monopoli

Paris isn’t a city, it’s a world.King Francois I

~ Lepota L. Cosmo

I like paths that lead to no certain end, that keep me wondering where I am.

~ Marty Rubin

In the time that man has been here there is one thing that all have seen and gazed upon in wonder. Luna.

~ Christopher Paul Flateau

What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?

~ Roshani Chokshi