Quotes About Awe

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

There's great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty.

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

Don't worry. I won't send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It's the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "IsnÂ't that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"

I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.