Wonder Quotes

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

~ Nick Flynn

She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led.

~ L.m. Montgomery

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

~ Dean Koontz

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

~ Francis Bacon

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Every day is one step closer to the precious truth; ervery day can teach you the wonder, if you're willing to see those.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don't want to see.-August thinking

~ R.j. Palacio

I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to, kissed slowly with.

~ Brandon Villasenor

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.

~ Lise Meitner

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

~ Marty Rubin

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

~ J. Tuzo Wilson

God is just a name for our wonder.

~ Nadeem Aslam

I wonder how you survived with those sugary lips, maybe there is no ant in your territory.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the imagination- is just as important a factor in the scheme of human happiness as the corporeal sense of eating and drinking; but there has never been a time when the world would admit it.

~ John Van Dyke

Craving is a good thing.In matters of culinary art, craving creates wonders.

~ Andy Paula

Wonders happen either way. With you or without you.

~ Sergey Vedenyo

I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Hannah, do you think that your mum and dad and Tate's mum and dad and my mum and dad and Webb and Tate are all together someplace?' she asks earnestly. I look at Hannah, waiting for the answer. And then she smiles. Webb once said that a Narnie smile was a revelation and, at this moment, I need a revelation. And I get one. 'I wonder,' Hannah says.

~ Melina Marchetta

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how it never, ever mattered to Daisy.

~ R.j. Palacio

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

~ Marty Rubin

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

~ Tatyana Tolstaya

[an encounter in space] Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.

~ Carl Sagan

Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Forrest Gander: Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green flies of the usual off the tablecloth. To pay attention.

~ Brian Christian

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe's lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

~ Kate Forsyth

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

~ Annie Dillard

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

~ John Piper

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss.

~ Steven Redhead

You're a thousand small wonders, Kylie, love, adding up to one grand miracle.

~ Dorien Kelly

The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.

~ Lemony Snicket

when that small Siberian bird fell out of the sky over Gray's River, not once but twice, he brought with him the sweetness of chance in any place, the certainty of wonder in all places. And if that's not grace, I don't know what it.

~ Robert Michael Pyle

In that light, philosophy is not so much--or not simply--'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.

~ Michael Munro

It is the final person we see reflected in our eyes that really matters; we wonder who is she and why is she here? To find ourselves truly, it is the goal we have all set for ourselves.

~ Michelle Shen

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

~ Sayo Masuda