Astonishment Quote by William Sansom

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 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

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

— William Macneile Dixon

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

— Timothy Keller

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

— Bryant McGill

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

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

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

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

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

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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