Quotes About Awe

our world has lost its sense of wonder.

There was something in Björk's behavior that was typical of the peasant's awe of those in power.

It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

Many times I thought that if the particular tree, commonly an elm, under which I was walking or riding were the only one like it in the country, it would be worth a journey across the continent to see it.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur.

I was dazzled by their loveliness.

He was lost in wonder at the mystery of things.

We must see the old king; we must "do" the cathedral,' he said; 'we must know all about it. If we could but take,' he exhaled, 'the full opportunity!' And then while, for all they seemed to give him, he sounded again her eyes: 'I feel the day like a great gold cup that we must somehow drain together.

The disorientation and reorientation which comes with the initiation into any mystery is the most wonderful experience which is possible to have.

whenever in my life I have gazed too long upon Beauty, particularly the beauty of the female, I have always experienced the sensation of fear. Fear, and a touch of horror too.

He looked at the walls, Awed at the heights His people had achieved And for a moment -- just a moment -- All that lay behind him Passed from view.

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...

the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open...

what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

I met Nelson Mandela, and I really didn't know what to say. It was years ago at a benefit. I was just in awe of this man because of what he'd done.

In a VR setting, you tilt your head up, and you really have the vertigo and the sense that it goes up to infinity, and it's like you're in New York City or Dubai, and you're looking up at a giant skyscraper. You have a sense of awe.

I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream.

Yosemite really brings out my creativity. It's such a powerful place, there's some sort of amazing energy going on that fuels me.

Every time I come, I'm still amazed at the breadth California has. Big Sur, Yosemite, the desert... I love it.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.