Quotes About Awe

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Newt shook his head, his face a mixture of anger and awe. "What you did was half brave and half bloody stupid. Seems like you're pretty good at that.

They fell from the sky in jagged streaks, like bars of

it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" after

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

We see nature as genius when we see as genius.

a little run in the sheer black of the universe

BLOODY HELL, HE JUST PUNCHED THE MOON!

Look now. It will never be more fascinating.

It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we find beautiful, we quiver before it.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. - The Secret History

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely

It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we shiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely?

what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes His hands off our eyes and says: Look!

And what is beauty?" "Terror.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the

Beauty is terror

beauty is terror, whatever we call beauty we quiver before it

And when the dark comes, he will look up and out and see a little smudge of light that is a galaxy that exploded millions of years ago, and the oppression that had gripped his heart lifts, and he laughs, and he calls his wife and says: Look, we are seeing something that ceased to exist millions of years ago—and she sees, exactly, and laughs with him.

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.