Quotes About Awe

salute the new sunset

The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings.

La gente guardaba silencio como en presencia de un milagro; el espanto y el terror habían atado todas las lenguas.

Magnificent,' muttered Glokta, stretching out his aching back and squinting up, the pure white stone almost painful to look at in the afternoon glare. 'Seeing this, one could almost believe in God.' If one didn't know better.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

I get scared thinking about the yawning void of space and the maddening smallness of our solar system in it, and the smallness of our planet in that solar system and of my own voice in the dark.

The night sky is beautiful, and like all beauty, it is indifferent.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

What I have is surface. Grooming, good genetics, whatever. Whether you've rolled out of bed an hour ago without having had a shower for three days, or you're wearing a designer suit, there is a deep, perfect beauty to you that takes my breath away.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.

There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.