Quotes About Awe

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious.

The cosmic perspective is humble.

Staring at the stars was like staring backward in time, since some stars are so far away that their light takes millions of years just to reach us. That we see stars not as they look now, but as they were when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole concept just struck me as…amazing somehow.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

there are moments when I'm struck by a deep sense of wonder.

I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

Ricky Whittle's abs, they should be in a museum. They're crazy.

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

I've felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to - I don't know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything.

The universe is a great mystery.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

I think that it's important for people to understand that there's a lot of mystery left in the world, there's a lot of wonder left in the world and there are places that we don't fully understand.

To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.