Best wonder & strange Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze andstone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horsesalong the edges of thick forests, and then we know that we have looked backthrough the ivory gates into that world of wonder that was ours, before we were wise and unhappy.”

Source: The Complete Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales

“Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.”

Moments Wonder Strange Flower Miracle Rose Lovely Opening Dawn Fading Petals Dusk Lovely Life

Author:Beverley Nichols

“I don't really dream, I space out during the day - that's one of my problems wonder off when someone's talking to me. I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”

I Can Real Problem Dream Seems Remember Space Talking Wonder Strange Real Life

Author:Tim Burton

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.”

Ifs Said Different Philosophy Able Wonder Break Strange Prejudice Lays Familiar Fancy Native Plato Slumber Dogmatic Plato And Aristotle

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.”

Knows Ideas Next Difficult Wonder Strange Demand Endless

Author:Donald Barthelme

“I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from 1991 and look at all the names and appointments and things that, at the time, seemed so important. Meetings that I was really worried about, things that I was getting calls four times a day about, and I wonder, "Where did it all go? Where are they now?" It's so strange, everything has disappeared. The only thing that stays behind is the work.”

Looks Important Used Names Behinds Wonder Four Strange Meetings Bunch Worried Digital Calendars Appointments

Author:Michael Bierut

“Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.”

Should Dies Wonder Sky Strange Astrology

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author

“Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.”

Children Character Parent Wonder Strange Envy Egotism Offspring Perversity

Author:William Hazlitt

“I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.”

Men Mean Brain Wonder Strange Married Males Afar Astounded

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.”

Wonder Strange Fool Mysterious

Book:Watchers

Source: Watchers

“It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.”

“I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.”

“I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.”

Mind Light Truth Turns Wonder Strange Borders Wrong Turn

Author:Denise Levertov

“Evolution was in a strange mood when that creation came along.... It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.”

World Animal Wonder Creation Strange Evolution Plant Mood Animal World

Author:John Colton

“The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.”

Feelings America Dark Cities Quality Wonder Magic Strange Bed Hot Embrace Ancient New Orleans Folklore Enchanted North America

Author:Daniel Gillies

“I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.”

Children Home Found Wonder Novel Century Strange Research Our Children Inspired Your Children Private Life Nursing 19th Century Backbone Milkweed

Author:Julie Klassen

“To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

May Ends Dream Beautiful Next Waiting Wonder Rocks Strange Wall Red Flow Rivers Stones Blue Ancient Endless Bars Desert Sunlight Cliffs Canyons Chasms Pinnacle Domes

Author:Edward Abbey

“We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing is a providing increased anonymity and ever increasing boredom, then we should not wonder if ingenious man turns to such amusements as drugs, housebreaking, vandalism, mayhem, riots, or - at the most harmless - strange haircuts, costumes, standards of cleanliness, and sexual experiments.”

“When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.”

Ifs Giving Believe Persons Sometimes Character Lines Talking Wonder Happened Strange Terrible

Author:Vincent Cassel

“Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.”

Ifs Way Art Facts Life Is Wonder Strange Illusion Assumption Revelations Delusion Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.”

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