I am all astonishment.

“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

— Salman Rushdie

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.”

— Karen Horney

Both of you’ll just have to believe me. Emma’s one of those women who was born with… The thing is, the minute a heterosexual…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm or a…

— Cassandra Clare

“See? Nothing to it." "I see all right," Carly said, her tone full of awe. She gaped at him. "What?" "Um..." "Jesus, Carly, what…

— Lissa Bryan

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with…

— Samuel Johnson

“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!”

— Bryant McGill

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

— Timothy Keller

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

— William Macneile Dixon

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale…

— Joel Meyerowitz

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

— Honore de Balzac

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom