Quotes About Awe

Arthur Machen

Ama yaln?zca çok az ÅŸey biliyorum; bir uçuruma bakm?? ve dehÅŸet içinde bak??lar?n? kaç?rm?? bir gezgin gibiyim.

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

I can't rave enough about Eloisa James. I'm simply in awe of her talent.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

So much of grandeur and richness in songs unnerve me.

I'm in awe of what it takes to run a nation, especially our great nation.

I've been in constant awe of the people I've been blessed to work with and, obviously, who have had great success in the film industry.

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Actor to Senderovsky: What awes you about the work you do? How does it humble you?

The young king, bright with such gold as is not found in any mine, strode across the waves; and the glory of him was such that he who looked on it should never look upon another.

The sea: you watch it for a while, lose interest, and then, because there is nothing else to look at, go back to watching it. It fills you with great thoughts which, leading nowhere and having nothing to focus on except the unfocused mass of the sea, dissolve into a vacancy which in turn, for want of any other defining characteristic, you feel content to term 'awe'.

MIRACLES, IN THE SENSE OF PHENOMENA WE CANNOT EXPLAIN, SURROUND US ON EVERY HAND: LIFE ITSELF IS THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

When it comes to BULLSHIT…BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT… you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.