Quotes About Awe

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

God is bigger than people think.

S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar.

So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of stars.

So many stars are popping out above us it seems you could almost dip your fingers up there and come out with a handful of diamonds.

Studying him, I had time to realize I was scared of him. Spending time with him was like opening a window to get air. I didn't know why he chose me to share his blood with when we were kids. And I supposed that's what happens when someone who awes you also chooses to be insterested in you. You can't help but fear it, and you don't want to let it disappear, and you want to be enough to deserve it. I guessed that was a story as old as time.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

S]he loved more the wild wood-walks, that skirted the mountain; and still more the mountain's stupendous recesses, where the silence and grandeur of solitude impressed a sacred awe upon her heart

Though it was no lighted up by the setting sun, the gothic greatness of its features and its moulding walls of dark grey stone, rendered it a gloomy and sublime object.

I marvel at everything as if it were new.

She looked, and saw the black, domed sky arching over her head. And her heart dilated; she felt the great black dome in her heart. She sat under the stars, worshipping them. Her heart opened and grew vast, until the whole sky with all its stars began to pour into her, a mysterious flood of star-strung darkness. She wanted to receive the night sky into her heart.

I loved him for his beauty. As I would again if he came near. Beauty convinces.

The huge night moved overhead scattering drops of itself.

if our God were small enough for us to understand, He wouldn't be big enough to save us.

I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known. HABAKKUK 3:2

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot staring at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure.

Bean looked up into the sky. What if someone was watching her through a giant magnifying glass and thinking the same thing she was? What if she was as small as an ant compared to that someone? And what if that someone was an ant compared to the next world after that? Wow. Bean waved at the sky. Hi out there, she thought.

I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.