Quotes About Awe

It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.

What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it's disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn't ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.

Don't worry. I won't send you off without warning. Just stand there and be awed by my beauty. It's the safest mode around me. (Savitar)

ahhh the beauty of annihilation. There's nothing like it.

Parenthood is an equal share of awe and ah, crap. -Galene

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.

Truly it is glorious, our being here.

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

fearing nothing but the unknown in a world of mysterious wonder.

the three first-year apprentices watched in awe as the two marksmen slammed arrow after arrow into the almost invisible targets. "Anytime before sunset would be fine," Will drawled.

The Eagle Has Landed The airlock swings open - Behold! A new world: obsidian black sky lit by the sun's fierce glare. Inch Down the ladder - The first man on the moon!* Look! The first footprint. Listen! The first word splitting the still dead silence. Dead dust dead rock dead black sky A dead dead world. Zombie in a moontrance I* trip stumble fall rise before the slow dust settles. Adrian Rumble

Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours of decay - the most terrible experiences are often bereft of these properties of melodrama.

everyone wants to be excited by something magical and wondrous - to be reminded of how they once saw the world ...

when you look at the stars, you should tremble - only dullards have become callous to this frisson ...