Wonderland Quotes

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

~ Lewis Carroll

Yes! He says. Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.

~ M.d. Elster

When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.

~ M.d. Elster

The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

~ M.d. Elster

My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I'm taking it back by letting go of them & just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let's see what you've got to say about the darkness in the mountains, I wonder if you know you can just turn it all to light. As we ride through the valley can you see the same water flowing that I do, or do dust clouds conceal it and block up your nose & throat? You're so thirsty for the end of the journey but I don't want you to miss the magic on the road.

~ Jay Woodman

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

~ Haruki Murakami

I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.

~ Haruki Murakami

Your imagination s a wonderland full of realities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your imagination is a wonderland full of realities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life just happens, Alice. What makes us special is how we react to it.

~ Robert Mckay

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?

~ Lewis Carroll

We talk and tease and bargain with the main dish. Maniacal laughter echoes in the marble halls, sweet to my ears.There’s movement at the banquet hall’s entrance. A child with my eyes tumbles in—all wings and blue hair and giggling innocence. Holding his hand is Morpheus, wearing a ruby crown.The Red King. My king.The bubble bursts and takes the vision with it, leaving nothing but the sound of my gasp and wisps of gray smoke behind.“You see,” Ivory says, “once Morpheus knew that one day you would belong to him and he to you, that you would share a child, he was no longer willing to die to save Wonderland. But he’s insecure about your feelings for him. He feared you would refuse to help. So he made a new plan, however flawed it was.

~ A.g. Howard

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

~ Lewis Carroll

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in Death of the Mad Hatter (Coming Soon!)

~ Sarah J. Pepper

Speak English! said the Eaglet. I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.

~ Lewis Carroll

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man.To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service.Bravo. Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. Bra-vo!

~ Frank Beddor

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

~ Lewis Carroll

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

~ Lewis Carroll

Time For Tea.

~ Tillie Cole

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

~ Lewis Carroll

The rabbit hole has collapsed, and my key is melded to a nugget of worthless metal.

~ A.g. Howard

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

Brave, impossible Alice. Stop being so sensible.

~ Emory R. Frie

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

~ Cassandra Kemper

The blaze from the trees spreads to tablecloths and crepe paper - a chain reaction so brilliantly spectacular and terrible, I ache to be a part of it...to devour and destroy,then relish in the plunder.I could do it.I could stand here amid the flames,let them lap at my skin,and laugh in a death-defying haze - because they belong to me. I could watch the world crumble and then dance,triumphant,in the snowfall of ash left behind.All I have to do is set the power free. Escape the chains of my humanity,let madness be my guide.

~ A.g. Howard

You know what insane people are, Alice? the Pillar says. They are just sane people who know too much.

~ Cameron Jace

Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane. 

~ Marie Hall

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach.The prettiest are always further! she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

~ Lewis Carroll

Be confident. Be successful. Bebeautiful. Be intelligent. Be hard working. Be carefree. Be modest.Be driven. Be forgiving. Be creative. Be relaxed. Be motivated. Beeducated. Be thoughtful. Be kind. Be determined. Be good. Just beyou!

~ Russell Strand

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.

~ Dr Wayne Dyer

Blood, sweat, and tea, sister! That's what it takes to achieve all great and terrible things.

~ Emory R. Frie

Go on till you come to the end, then stop.

~ Lewis Carroll

It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.

~ Lorna Jane Cook