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Quotes About Awe

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~ Ravi Zacharias
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
~ Ray Bradbury
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
~ Ray Bradbury
Douglas opened one eye. And everything, absolutely everything, was there. The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.
~ Ray Bradbury
See the world: It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
~ Ray Bradbury
Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.
~ Ray Bradbury
Tom grabbed his arm and pointed gasping, at the dime-store window. They stood there, unable to move because of the things from another world displayed so neatly, so innocently, so frighteningly, there. 'Pencils, Doug, ten thousand pencils!' 'Oh, my gosh!' 'Nickel tablets, dime tablets, notebooks, erasers, water colors, rulers, compasses, a hundred thousand of them!' 'Don't look. Maybe it's just a mirage.
~ Ray Bradbury
They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that someday it'll have to hit.
~ Ray Bradbury
Stuff your eyes with wonders [...]live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
~ Ray Bradbury
It is good to renew one's wonder," said the philosopher. "Space travel has again made children of us all.
~ Ray Bradbury
Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
~ Ray Bradbury
hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any
~ Ray Bradbury
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
~ Ray Bradbury
The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there-- there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.
~ Joseph Conrad
The fascination of the abomination.
~ Joseph Conrad
It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.
~ Joseph Conrad
The fascination of the abomination—you know.
~ Joseph Conrad
su misterio, su grandeza, la asombrosa realidad de su vida oculta.
~ Joseph Conrad
The horror, the horror.
~ Joseph Conrad
The next gust seemed to blow all this away. The air was full of flying water. There was a fierce purpose in the gale, a furious earnestness in the screech of the wind, in the brutal tumult of earth and sky, that seemed directed at him, and made him hold his breath in awe. He stood still. It seemed to him he was whirled around.
~ Joseph Conrad
Ich geselle mich zu ihnen und schaue ebenfalls voller Ehrfurcht und Bewunderung zu diesem gewaltigen Bauwerk auf und erschaudere angesichts einer Kultur, die eine solche Waffe, ein solch perverses Monument der Massenvernichtung bauen konnte.
~ Joseph Farrell
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Poetry keeps the door open to awe and ensures that we will find our way through the broken heart field of wars, losses and betrayals to understanding, compassion and gathering together.
~ Joy Harjo
Emerging from a story, a poem, the Earth, a time in history, or from the body of our mothers is sometimes explosive, chaotic, frightening, yet always awe-inspiring and humbling. We can use the energy to create fresh structures, or we can destroy or be destroyed. The energy can have power over us or empower us, and even what is destructive might clear the debris so that fresh life can emerge from embers or ashes.
~ Joy Harjo