Quotes About Awe

I can't make anything. I don't know how to make a dress. I couldn't go on a shoot and create an image. I can't write a script. I have so much admiration for people who can do these things, because I would have no idea where to start.

I wondered just how much of her I'd invented. Had I only mastered some skill for awing myself? Or would this creature, Camilla, like a settler's incessant New World, keep increasing my capacity not only to marvel but to marvel at myself in the face of her?

Walbourne's fluid, tasteful, beautiful solos drop the jaw, stop the heart, and smack the gob, all at the same time.

larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward, so have we turned all of our hope inward, believing that meaning can be found or made there. Having cut ourselves off from all that is unknowable and that might truly fill us with awe, we can only find wonderment in our own powers of creativity.

Doesn't part of the awe that fills us when we confront the unknown come from understanding that, should it at last flood into us and become known, we would be altered?

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!" - The Narrator.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything--as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

Every morning when he opens his eyes and observes trees, the sea, stones, a bird, he cries with wide open mouth, "What a miracle this is! What is the meaning of trees, the sea, stones, a bird?

I'm sad, uneasy. I look with awe on my life and soul. Nothing satisfies me.

I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

This is how we must look to God.

Give me wonder, baby. Flash. Give me amazement. Flash.

When you believe in magic, it is easy to see all the universe as evidence of it.)

Not too far out of line with what modern evangelical thought had become, sadly. Selfish people in awe of a selfish deity.

Through the white snow-gate of our ampitheatre, as through a frame we looked eastward upon the summit group; not a tree, not a vestige of vegetation in sight,-sky, snow and granite the only elements in this wild picture.

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.

He tilted back his head and stared up at the sky and marveled once again, as he had marveled many other times on many other planets, at the sheer, devastating loneliness and alienness of unfamiliar stars.

I could smell her perfume. It was light and airy, a scent I didn't know, and seemed personal to her. She was so beautiful, I couldn't bear to look at her.

though she hurried him on, he dawdled, his head back, squinting at the stars. There were no revelations to be had there. Just pinpricks of light in a plain heaven. But he saw for the first time how fine that was. That in a world too full of loss and rage they be remote: the minimum of glory. As she led him across the lightless ground, time and again he could not prevent his gaze from straying skyward.

She gulped the air like water, the night sky the best meal she had ever had, the starts made succulent and ripe after her time below.

As if something moved toward them, old and dark.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.