I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.
Anne RiceA stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth. In approaching literature, it has aimed at restoring to the word its magical qualities. And at giving back to language the elemental power it once had within society. This determinism lies at the heart of the surrealist attitude and distinguishes it radically from the modernism which took shape contemporaneously with it.
Michael RichardsonTags: literature language wonder word myth magic surrealism modernism
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
Albert EinsteinTags: religion wonder curiosity spirituality
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.
Chuck PalahniukTags: beauty world language wonder understanding
Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown.
Walter de la MareWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Abraham Joshua HeschelTags: life wonder appreciation
It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Terry PratchettTags: technology wonder
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
Vera NazarianTags: wonder secret secrets pyramid property shape
Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.
Welwyn Wilton KatzTags: inspirational meaning-of-life wonder
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
Lord DunsanyTags: wonder london kindlehighlight world-weariness new-worlds
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