Astonishment Quotes

To my utter astonishment I saw an airship descending over my cow lot. It was occupied by six of the strangest beings I ever saw. They were jabbering together, but we could not understand a word they said.

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.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

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."

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

I am all astonishment.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

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.