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Quotes About Awe

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
~ Alan Watts
Sometimes it was entirely right and proper to be awed. And recognising the physics in these formations, the hand of time and matter and the nuclear forces underpinning all things, did not lessen that feeling. What
~ Alastair Reynolds
I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
~ Lillie Langtry
It's like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.
~ Peggy Whitson
I think if ever I met Peter O'Toole, I'd faint.
~ Matthew Broderick
Nature is so phenomenal.
~ Dick Strawbridge
I was just lucky to be a part of this phenomenon of Indian cinema. Perhaps no other film can ever match the magic and awe of 'Baahubali.'
~ Prabhas
I found my first picture of Amanda Lepore online in fashion magazines. It was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen in my life. I thought nothing could trump the perfection of that photograph.
~ Sharon Needles
Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.
~ Reinhold Messner
I like when videos used to make you sit at home, and you'd watch it and be like in awe like, 'I wish I was at that place, man. I wanna go on a vacation.'
~ Fabolous
He was exactly my height, which surprised me; my awe of him had made him seem taller.
~ Rachel Hartman
I experienced every wing beat as a terrifying drop followed by a stomach-lurching heave. I was sick over a glacier. Brisi watched with interest and screeched, "A thousand years from now, that will still be there, frozen in the ice. Unless a quig eats it.
~ Rachel Hartman
People stood at the edge, gaping foolishly, because they didn't believe it. The chasm was too big to understand.
~ Rachel Hartman
It's even autographed," Jason said, the awe evident in his voice. "It's not personalized." Which was a silly thing to say, since he could obviously see it wasn't. "Still," he said. "Yeah, still." I could hear him saying, "Hey, guys, let me introduce you to my conversationally challenged host sister.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
A gorgeous, make-your-ovaries-shiver man.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
But just look at her, he thought. How can there be this much treasure all in one place, and the world still here?
~ Rafi Zabor
The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measurements of space and time, the photographs of far stars and of points of light which proved to be composed of thousands of stars, filled him with an awe which felt like the edge of a delicious panic.
~ Ramsey Campbell
Fear turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a hulking, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy. He had been a line-backer at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. On
~ Randy Pausch
Mire Hacia Las Estrellas. Look At The Stars.
~ Raul E. Sanchez
They were no more than conscious that she spoke to them. They had seen a thing that was unearthly. They were in a trance from the strong spell of its beauty. •11•
~ Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan
Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
~ Ray Bradbury
It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
~ Kevin James