Astonishment Quote by Theodore Roethke Download Open image “Live in a perpetual great astonishment.” — Theodore Roethke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astonishment
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is. — Anis Mojgani Copy Share Image
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward... — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
