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 | There is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 12 likes |
 | We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. — Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, American columnist 9 likes |
 | Without astonishment, there is no love; man and woman would have to be a perpetual surprise to each other. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 7 likes |
 | True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 6 likes |
 | Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 5 likes |
 | Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes |
 | The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 2 likes |
| Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 2 likes |
| Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 2 likes |
 | If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 2 likes |
 | I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. |
 | In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us. |
 | A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. |
 | Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. |
 | Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion. |
 | It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. |
 | In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others. |
 | Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. |
 | It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. |
 | The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. |
 | I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appearing on my canvas. |
 | All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. |
 | Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. |
Funny Quotes
 | I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | And you, son Brutus? Και συ, τέκνον Βρούτε; — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul (his last words, spoken in Greek) 11 likes |
 | What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth? Ποίον σε έπος φύγεν έρκος οδόντων; — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad IV 6 likes |
 | Backward to their sources flow the streams of holy rivers, and the order of things is reversed. Άνω ποταμών ιερών χωρούσι παγαί, και δίκα και πάντα πάλιν στρέφεται. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Medea 4 likes |
