Quotes About Awe

Never had the sun risen so beautifully, and never had the world seemed so lovely as it did to the heavy eyes of Meg and Jo

Junior felt humble in his presence.

Me asustó tanta belleza, porque la belleza es la mezcla de lo hermoso y lo terrible.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power?

It wasn't just catching mackerel that made those dawns red-letter days for us. It was like watching the world being created anew to watch the sun come up -the orange streak changing to flames -orange, yellow, crimson; to watch the whole bay catch the glory of it – to watch the western sky take fire. People who don't ever watch sunrises miss a lot of wonder.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Creo que se podría vivir constantemente absorto en la contemplación de un ser femenino.

We ask the child to drag around the unwieldy weight of magic. To clap wildly. To believe in what we believe in no longer. We ask the child to keep the awe we forgot how to hold. The fairy isn't the fairy. It's the child who is the fairy.

An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded in flight, the earth mutated--nearly--into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted. Long before she ever encountered the mountain, Allie was aware of its brooding presence in her soul.

The universe was a place of wonders, and only habituation, the anaesthesia of the everyday, dulled our sight.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe; it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us. Is it not terrible?

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

the lightning would come and, a few moments later, the thunder. -Susie Salmon, The Lovely Bones

Eu unu cred c? suntem aici ca s? ne mir?m. S? ne mir?m. S? întreb?m. Iar dac? te miri de lucrurile mari ÅŸi întrebi de lucrurile mari, atuncea 'nveÅ£i despre alea m?runte, aproape din întâmplare. Da despre lucrurile mari n-ai s? ÅŸtii niciodat? mai multe decât ÅŸtiai la început. Cu cât m? mir mai mult, cu atât iubesc mai mult, a spus el.

despair cannot share the same space as wonder

More than anything else, God love admiration … wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God odd if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Do I think if something's beautiful, it's perfect? I guess you could say that. If I'm in a rapture of beauty, it's perfect to me.

Perhaps I identify too well with my father's illicit awe. A trace of this seems caught in the photo, just as a trace of Roy has been caught on the light-sensitive paper...It's a curiously ineffectual attempt at censorship. Why cross out the year and not the month? Why, for that matter, leave the photo in the envelope at all? In an act of prestidigitation typical of the way my father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and revealed.