Quotes About Awe

Familiarity destroys reverence.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

of all stars the most beautiful

Awed by her splendor Stars near the lovely moon cover their own bright faces when she is roundest and lights earth with her silver

the rose-fingered moon exeeds all stars

en güzeli. bütün y?ld?zlar?n.

In the distance the sky sparked and caught on fire, glowing green and gold and purple. Over the village of Paradise lightning jumped from cloud to cloud and then it put down long legs and walked the earth. The thunder came with a great rip of sound. Hannah closed her eyes and saw the light still, throbbing bloodred.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

She stared in awe at the musicians and wished she knew how to make such beauty. It must be so tremendous to create something out of nothing. Out of sound. Out of air. Out of movement and -

Do you like the sunset I ordered for you?

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

I was in awe every time I walked on to the field

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile

L'or vierge du respect serait trop mou sans un certain alliage de crainte.

There's more beauty on Earth than I can bear.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

It's strange how you never quite get used to the world at night.

It is all still new to me. I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

Nothing could be more miraculous than the fact that we have a consciousness that makes the world intelligible to us and are moved by what is beautiful.

There is no strictly secular language that can translate religious awe.