Quotes About Awe

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

you find yourself face-to-face with the enormousness of the world as a whole.

I saw myself reflected in the glass of the large terrace window while black gloom spread over the rain-hounded night panorama. I was tied by blood to no creature in this world. I could go anywhere, do anything. It was dizzying. Suddenly, to see that the world was so large, the cosmos so black. The unbounded fascination of it, the unbounded loneliness... for the first time these days, i was touching it with these hands, these eyes. I've been looking at the world half-blind, i thought.

He had forgotten that children were miracles—and it didn't matter that he had originally wanted to wait longer before having a child, he had been in the delivery room when Julia was born. He knew the awe that came with the emergence of a fully formed, perfectly functioning, miniature human being that he had helped make.

Around the circle eyes began to glisten as Carol's awe of the Gospel laid bare the shame of those of us whose senses had been dulled to its wonder.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

For it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.

I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is.

Thor is a god who's lived in Asgard most all his life, but I think he still has a sense of awe and wonder about the place. I want us, as readers, to have that same sense of awe whenever we see, finally see, the golden spires of Realm Eternal.

At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.

I recently met Michael Phelps. He is my absolute idol. I was totally starstruck. I did manage to get a few words out.

I don't want to get blase about being recognised. It's pretty amazing.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.

I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you're there, and it's dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it's quite different to watching it on TV.

I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.

That's no moon," Kenobi breathed softly.

A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them--and what people hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are beautiful terrors.

Possessed by the power of the gorgeous night, she seemed at one and the same moment annihilated and glorified.