Astonishment Quote by Diane Ackerman

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

— Charles Darwin

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

— Terence McKenna

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of…

— Hannah Arendt

I don't think in Art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one & terrifying & threatening & bursting with hope.

— Martha Graham

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

— Theodore Roethke

Each moment presents what happens.

— John Cage

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

— Martha Graham

There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.

— Peaceful Warrior

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I think that perhaps there are no such defining moments at all. Beginnings and ends are fluid, long chains of events where some links…

— Linda Olsson

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What…

— Victor Hugo

“If you simply pause and heed once in a while, you can find fragments of extraordinary moments in the midst of an ordinary life.”

— Mitali Meelan