Astonishment Quotes

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

— Theodore Roethke

Rome is an astonishment!

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

— Paul Tillich

I am all astonishment.

— Jane Austen

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.

— Harry Banks

“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.”

— Anne Carson

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

— Ellis Peters

The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Roberto Matta

“A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.”

— John Piper

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

— Enid Bagnold

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

— Celia Green

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

— Rebecca West

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady…

— Anonymous

“Nick stared at him in astonishment. “Was that actually a smile? Shit, Pallas—all these years we’ve been working together, I wasn’t even…

— Julie James

A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

— Nicolas Chamfort

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's…

— Djuna Barnes

“Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!”

— Bryant McGill

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and…

— Felix Dennis

She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace…

— Cassandra Clare

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all…

— Octavio Paz

George Lowe was the one who opened the mail, and George started laughing uproariously and I looked up at him in astonishment…

— Edmund Hillary

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain…

— Anonymous

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather…

— Studs Terkel

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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— Peter Gizzi

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

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Simon,” she whispered, vaguely surprised that she had just used his first name, for she had never used it even in the…

— Lisa Kleypas

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

— Lissa Bryan

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved…

— Christopher Hitchens

Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in…

— Charles Darwin

Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else…

— Annie Dillard

“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to…

— China Miéville

If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Sara Suleri

There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins.

— Diane Ackerman

“We are both astonishments, the closest thing in the known universe to a miracle”

— John Green

“It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein