Quotes About Awe

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn't breathe.

Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon?

They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

I want to make him stop dead, in the middle of the hall and say, 'Wow she's beautiful.'

Hence when lightning fires the arch of heaven, and thunders rock the ground, when furious whirlwinds rend the howling air, and ocean, groaning from his lowest bed, heaves his tempestuous billows to the sky; amid the mighty uproar, while below the nations tremble, Shakespeare looks abroad from some high cliff, superior, and enjoys the elemental war.

When we lose our sense of wonder, what we really lose is our soul. Our lack of wonder is really a lack of love.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.6

There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words...

It was a slap-splash, a fleshy belly-flop sound, like the fin of something large in these waters, surfacing briefly to wave at the stars.

She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.

State terror then is not only "shock and awe," but often more a pinprick of wariness and dread, reminding one of state power, its dominance. In other words, the "shock and awe" is not a one-time event, nor is it meant to be. It is meant to have a lasting impact, to make the subordinated think always that the shock could be applied again. It is meant to leave one in an ongoing "state of shock. Whether

Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get, " he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

I felt both puny and pretentious, trying to write in the grandeur of that natural world where everything was older than time and I was the briefest object in the landscape.

Slowly we wound uphill past fields and thick forest until we reached the eastern edge of the Rift Valley. Far below, as far as I could see, lay the golden plain ringed by blue mountains. It was true, it was there, and more magical than I had ever pictured it.

Without such beliefs and stories, as Carl Jung put it, we would be 'crushed by the sheer awe-fullness of the universe'. In other words, without a story to give us a place in the greater picture, we will become lost or, even worse, think that we are the story.