--- title: "2 Amazement Quotes By W.N.P. Barbellion" description: "2 Amazement quotes by W.N.P. Barbellion. Plus more from W.N.P. Barbellion and more Amazement sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/w-n-p-barbellion-27285_alive_suddenly-i-awake-to-a-stark-amazement-at_314295.jpg" --- > [Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/suddenly-i-awake-to-a-stark-amazement-at-everything-to-be-alive-is-so/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/530/w-n-p-barbellion-27285_alive_suddenly-i-awake-to-a-stark-amazement-at_314295.jpg) > [I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-waste-much-time-gaping-and-wondering-during-a-walk-or-in-a-book-or/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12b/w-n-p-barbellion-27285_alive_i-waste-much-time-gaping-and-wondering-d_1209932.jpg) ## Other authors on Amazement ## More by W.N.P. Barbellion > [“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/the-porter-spends-his-days-in-the-library-keeping-strict-vigil-over/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/sometimes-i-think-i-am-going-mad-i-live-for-days-in-the-mystery-and/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“I have reveled in my littleness and irresponsibility. It has relieved me of the harassing desire to live, I feel content to live dangerously,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-have-reveled-in-my-littleness-and-irresponsibility-it-has-relieved/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/suddenly-i-awake-to-a-stark-amazement-at-everything-to-be-alive-is-so/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/to-forget-the-past-so-easily-seems-scarcely-loyal-to-oneself-i-am-so/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-waste-much-time-gaping-and-wondering-during-a-walk-or-in-a-book-or/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/i-can-remember-wondering-as-a-child-if-i-were-a-young-macaulay-or/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/an-appetite-for-knowledge-is-apt-to-rush-one-off-one-s-feet-like-any/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“When the sun grew too hot we went into the wood where waves of Bluebells dashed around the foot of the Oak in front…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/when-the-sun-grew-too-hot-we-went-into-the-wood-where-waves-of/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“When I feel ill, cinema pictures of the circumstances of my death flit across my mind's eye. I cannot prevent them. I consider the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/when-i-feel-ill-cinema-pictures-of-the-circumstances-of-my-death-flit/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/in-the-enfranchised-mind-of-the-scientific-naturalist-the-usual/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/youth-is-an-intoxication-without-wine-someone-says-life-is-an/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“Civilisation and top hats bore me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/civilisation-and-top-hats-bore-me/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/how-i-hate-the-man-who-talks-about-the-brute-creation-with-an-ugly/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) > [“Her journal is my journal. All mine is stale reading now. She has written down all my thoughts and forestalled me! Already I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-n-p-barbellion/her-journal-is-my-journal-all-mine-is-stale-reading-now-she-has/) [W.N.P. Barbellion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-n-p-barbellion/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amazement/w-n-p-barbellion/#itemlist", "name": "2 Amazement Quotes By W.N.P. Barbellion", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... 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