Astonishment quotes
50 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been."
"Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment."
"One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up."
"Astonishment is the proper response to reality."
"I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.""
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"Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement."
"I am all astonishment."
"When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself"
"HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing."
"The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life."
"In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment."
"The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us."
"Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next."
"Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment."
