Quotes About Awe

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids.

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.

I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

My mom had me when she was 25, and I'm 28 now, and just to even imagine myself three years ago starting to have children and be married and have my career, it's pretty trippy, and I'm so proud and kind of in awe of her.

Robert Lindsay is a legend, he can do anything. Sing, dance, make you laugh. I was in awe of him on 'Hornblower.'

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

I've always wanted to meet Robert Downey, Jr. because I think he's awesome.

Sasha Banks is amazing.

What distinguishes that summit above the earthly line, is that it is unhandselled, awful, grand. It can never become familiar; you are lost the moment you set foot there. You know the path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud. That rocky, misty summit, secreted in the clouds, was far more thrillingly awful and sublime than the crater of a volcano spouting fire (HENRY DAVID THOREAU, JOURNAL)

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It's like going to the moon.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

reverence, maybe

Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.

De noche, en esa atmósfera sin agua, las estrellas descienden hasta quedar prácticamente al alcance de tus dedos.

The magnetized mountain and the genie who swore to kill his benefactor are—who would deny it?—marvelous, but not so much more than the morning itself and the mere fact of being.

vi tu cara, y sentí vértigo y lloré, porque mis ojos habían visto ese objeto secreto y conjetural, cuyo nombre usurpan los hombres, pero que ningún hombre ha mirado: el inconcebible universo.

The really human thing is to see the stars above the roof, to preserve our apprehension of the universality of things in the midst of the habits of daily life, and to see the world above and beyond our immediate environment.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

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

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it. Awe is what moves us forward.