Quotes About Awe

People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man... The stars, it seemed, would crush man in a scenic, gravitational panorama before man would ever corrupt the stars.

We are on a rock travelling around 1 of 100 billion stars. Our species is 1 of over half a billion that have ever existed. Our chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion. You're not special, but you are fucking lucky. Enjoy your amazing life. You'll never exist again.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness … it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

I had been standing there rather stupidly, instead of taking my departure, as I should have done, for I may as well confess that I was astounded at the sumptuous beauty of the girl before me, who had hitherto cast not even a look in my direction. Now she raised her lovely, indescribable eyes to mine, and I felt a thrill extend to my finger-tips. Many handsome women have I seen in my day, but none to compare with this superb daughter of the West.

The sound of the rampaging Missouri,Bending the reeds again and again—something inside usLike a ghost train in the RockiesAbout to be buried in snow!Its long hootMaking the owl in the Douglas fir turn his head.

Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations.

On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

They want to touch God.

Daily Law: The fact that you are aware of this insignificance and smallness is paradoxically what renders you powerful and significant. It is an understanding of reality that no other animal is capable of. Such awareness can begin to restore to you that sense of awe and connection that comes from a proper sense of scale.

Daily Law: Look at the sky and stars as if seeing them for the first time. Law of the Sublime, 1: Expand the Mind to Its Furthest Reaches—The Cosmic Sublime

He calls upon the mountains to kneel, and the seas to give way, and the very skies to bow. Pray that the heart of stone remembers tears, and the soul of fire, love.

I'm never tired of finding out what a moonrise can be over them rocks and sea and harbor. There's a surprise in it every time.

It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty.

All of a sudden she had a thought that made her run outside to look at the stars.

Be? milyar y?la sonsuz diyebilir misiniz? Sanm?yorum. ama bu kadar? bile geri kalan?m?z? k?skand?rmaya yeter. sf.10

Love was foolish and inevitable. We were just waiting to be shattered by it. The days were finite, full of awe.

You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them

And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them, or melt them, or make them overflow. We can't flood them, or blow them up, or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching.

I felt it was for this I had come: to wake at dawn on a hillside and look out on a world for which I had no words, to start at the beginning, speechless and without plan, in a place that still had no memories for me.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Without science, everything is a miracle.