Awe Quotes

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.

We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Most people dont know how awesome they are, until you tell them. Be sure to tell them.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, does awe.

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

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Remain educated, keep being awesome.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard.And always be awesome.

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I don't know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

One to destroy, is murder by the law;

and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me.

The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Don't forget to be awesome.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles;

but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

The awesome moment when someone is making efforts to make you smile.

Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe.

We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.

You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a piece of film -- or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something -- that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence.

..We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverance, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful...Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Dasein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams --can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

Murders are exciting and lift people into a heart-beating awe as religion is supposed to do, after seeing one in the street young couples will go back to bed and make love, people will cross themselves and thank God for the gift of their stuporous lives, old folks will talk to each other over cups of hot water with lemon because murders are enlivened sermons to be analyzed and considered and relished, they speak to the timid of the dangers of rebellion, murders are perceived as momentary descents of God and so provide joy and hope and righteous satisfaction to parishioners, who will talk about them for years afterward to anyone who will listen.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us.

There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others;

and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Two things fill the heart with renewed and increasing awe and reverence the more often and the more steadily that they are meditated on: the starry skies above me and the moral law inside me.

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.'

One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset...I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a litle more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism.

I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought.

Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon.

They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

What Tony sees in that moment is the project of philosophy, the project that begins in wonder - what Kant called 'admiration and awe at the starry sky above and the moral law within.'

It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity.

A man-made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

I had to do something special coming in.

I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980.

I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

It's an awesome thing to be flung out onto the stage twice a weekend in front of 250 people, and you have to make it up as you go along.