Top 194 Astonishment Quotes & Sayings

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

My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

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

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

HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and I have an appreciation that I didn't have when I was in my 20s.

The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich

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

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

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

I doubt that the phenomenon was any terrestrial reflection, because... nothing of the kind has ever appeared before or since... I was so unprepared for such a strange sight that I was really petrified with astonishment.

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

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Live in a perpetual great astonishment.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

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

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

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

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

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

Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.

A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.

Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.

That`s an astonishment that we`re waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central rationale for his candidacy.

Rome is an astonishment!

I am all astonishment.

Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is also no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language. Kierkegaard too saw that there is this running up against something, and he referred to it in a fairly similar way (as running up against paradox). This running up against the limits of language is ethics.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

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

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

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.