“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Variant: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Source: East of Eden
“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”
John Steinbeck book East of Eden
Variant: I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Source: East of Eden
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing
“Where have my ravish'd senses been!
What joys, what wonders, have I seen!”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Henry in Rosamond (c. 1707), Act III, sc. i.
Context: Where have my ravish'd senses been!
What joys, what wonders, have I seen!
The scene yet stands before my eye,
A thousand glorious deeds that lie
In deep futurity obscure,
Fights and triumphs immature,
Heroes immers'd in time's dark womb,
Ripening for mighty years to come,
Break forth, and, to the day display'd,
My soft inglorious hours upbraid.
Transported with so bright a scheme,
My waking life appears a dream.
“It never occurred to us to wonder how we would feel being seen like that.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book Never Let Me Go
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 3, p. 34
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
A Sense of Wonder
Song lyrics, A Sense of Wonder (1985)