Quotes About Awe

We are one knot in a great web of being, building out of the vast past and (with luck) continuing billions of years into the future, until the sun dies, the last of its energy reaches Earth, and our local light goes out. The most appropriate response to the world is to realize, with awe, the ferocious mystery of being alive in it. And act accordingly. The worst thing anyone should be able to say about their life is also the greatest thing anyone can say: 'I tried my best.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us: every time we glimpse a new aspect of it, it is a deeply emotional experience. Another veil has fallen.

Elle MacPherson is absolutely amazing she is just so beautiful.

No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.

Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.

We are treated to an awesome sight.

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

I bet we look great from above, lit by stars, in love.

cowed by the awe of a hundred thousand voices clamoring to be heard above the din of reverent quiet.

Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests.

Novelties please less than they impress.

Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken. Than those whereof such things the bard relates, Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?

Impressive, most impressive.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, for this wide world has no greater wonder.

Dragons are fire made flesh.

No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.

We are awed by the ultimate simplicity and power of the creativity of physical nature- and by its beauty on all scales.

Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

The real question is why is there "being"? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.