Quotes about Wonder

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

There's no light bulb lit. I half wonder if there's any power to light one. Aunt Alice? A round goblin comes out of the darkness of the hallway.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable.

He fell to the seat, she by his side. There no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, that May blooms, that the dawn whitens behind the black trees on the shivering summit of the hills?

What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant;

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.