While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.
H.P. LovecraftTags: fantasy wonder fiction lovecraft escapism weird-fiction
Look closely Jane. This is Majesty Park, the city of wonder. Here you are free to dream dreams and follow them wherever they may take you.
Elle AlexanderTags: dreams wonder magic enchantment
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
Rabindranath TagoreTags: art wonder taj-mahal timeless
Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.
Thomm QuackenbushTags: religion wonder discovery
The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.
Diet EmanPhilip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.
Philip YanceyAuthor wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.
Mark BuchananTags: wonder depression
The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
Carrie RyanTags: death religion wonder living uncertainty
[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea.
Carl SaganTags: humanity wonder space-and-cosmos
And I wondered how it would feel to be in Heaven and not have my face matter anymore. Just like how it never, ever mattered to Daisy.
R.J. PalacioTags: wonder august-pullman
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