Quotes About Awe

Before the night was over, Bleby, Morris, and thousands of others watched awestruck as new fires spread on neighboring plantations, in an unstoppable chain, as if the universe itself was answering the first call of flames and setting free some beautiful and terrifying spirit that could not be called back.

She stared up at the stars and smiled.

It is difficult to gaze in awe at the wonders of ancient Egypt with modern Egypt tugging so insistently at your sleeve.

PRIOR (An awestruck whisper): God almighty. Very Steven Spielberg.

As soon as you stop being humbled by the creation process, Little One, it is so much bigger than you are. And when you think it is you and you are it, it will drown you or burn you alive.

Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

I don't care. Cause when you see a scrap of pretty in this world, you gotta stop and give it a little respect.

His triceps were particularly awesome; when he raised his arms they hung down like glistening shark's bellies, solid curves of human steel.

Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

I've crossed these sands many times, said one of the camel drivers one night. But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent. The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

No one can posses an afternoon of rain beating against the window, or the serenity of a sleeping child, or the magical moment when the waves break on the rocks. No one can posses the beautiful things of this Earth, but we can know them and love them. It is through such moments that God reveals himself to mankind.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

When we stop seeking the familiarity of samsara, when we stop fighting the groundlessness of freedom from imputed meaning, emptiness becomes an experience of awe, of the infinite, of limitless pace.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?'

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.