Quotes About Awe

Humor to me, Heaven help me, takes in many things. 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.

It [Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

That is really amazing.' he said. 'That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen …

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.; 'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment

The first thing that hit their eyes was what appeared to be a coffin. And the next four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine things that hit their eyes were also coffins.

The barman reeled for a moment, hit by a shocking, incomprehensible sense of distance. He didn't know what it meant, but he looked at Ford Prefect with a new sense of respect, almost awe.

En todos los amaneceres hay un momento en que la luz flota y la magia es posible. La creación contuvo el aliento.

Space,' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

Even the most seasoned star tramp can't help but shiver at the spectacular drama of a sunrise seen from space

That is really amazing. That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.

And when you do find this letter, you know what? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun will start shining down in the middle of night, imagine that!

the universe is indeed a beautiful place. If you doubt me, go check for yourself.

O Signore, la tua notte è così grande e la nostra rete così piccola.

In keeping with the methodical scientist he was, he had been jotting daily notes on his work. But underneath the entry for May 5, he had written two words only: HOLY SHIT!

The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

Would that I might get a mantle like unto the heavens!

It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards more than one of those present remembered that moment.

Fidelitatea mea nu datoreaz? nimic unei hot?râri, totul se datoreaz? uimirii permanente. Nu ?tiu dac? dragostea ve?nic? exist?, dar ?tiu c? exist? fiin?e infinit demne de a fi iubite.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.

eyes scanned the heavens, and he found familiar