Astonishing Quotes

• A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

  

  Celeste Bradley
  • Astonishing
  • Ardent

• Happy? Poor, ordinary, everyday word. But what could one say, how could one describe it? It was as though she could hardly stay inside herself, it was as though she were too small to hold so much of joy, it was as though she were washed through with light. And how astonishing to feel this sheer bliss, for here she was, not doing and not going to do a single unselfish thing, not going to do a thing she didn't want to do. ... Now she had taken off all her goodness and left it behind her like a heap in rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Happy
  • Joy
  • Describe

• In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Brain
  • Spirit
  • Understand

• I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

  

  Keith Gessen
  • Thinking
  • Single
  • Genius

• When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Calm
  • Rage
  • Astonishing

• The astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Pain
  • Purity
  • Sensations

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