Quotes About Awe

My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.

It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.

The reward for the watching eye and the listening ear is great. I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. I

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Comencé a embriagarme con la vista que tenía alrededor, observando como el sol se alzaba sobre la falda de la montaña, tiñendo el río de dorado. En breve me encontraría a la altura de esa cima.

Children see magic because they look for it.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

Tell them I Am, Jehovah saidTo Moses; while earth heard in dread,And smitten to the heart,At once above, beneath, around,All nature, without voice or sound,Replied, O Lord, Thou art.

If he lived through this night, he'd look back on this moment and recall seeing the universe in all its majesty and recognizing he was only a powerless man staring into the vastness of an all-powerful God.

Clark Ashton Smith

la certeza de que hay algo mucho más grande que el ser humano: algo que es ajeno y no se puede abarcar, pero que existe. Ficción, sugestión, fe, no sé cuál es la palabra adecuada.

All civil charmsAnd priestly spells which late held hearts in awe—Fear-bound, subjected to a better swayThan sway of self; these like a dream dissolve,And man rebounds whole aeons back in nature.

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.

So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe...but grind each other down with crooked judgements

Awe becomes simple fear all too easily. And when it does, what does that leave but hatred?

He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.

Humans cannot fly, but they can get the flying feeling. All they need to do is go out at night into a wild storm where the thunder roars like applause and the lightning throws itself in daggers of light at your bare feet and you suddenly find you are not afraid.

I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..

Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången.

Gazing at her for a long moment with something like horror, as though he was seeing her for the first time, he spoke. "You are more dangerous than daybreak.

They are beautiful and terrible, and they might despise my mortality, might mock it, but I am up here and they are not.

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.