Top 199 Awe Quotes

I love video games. I’m also slightly in awe of them. I’m in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I’m in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we’ve ever invented has quite done before.
Tom Chatfield
I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders – Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.
Opal Tometi
If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.
Alex Trebek
Robert Lindsay is a legend, he can do anything. Sing, dance, make you laugh. I was in awe of him on ‘Hornblower.’
Ioan Gruffudd
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
H. P. Lovecraft
I am all at once in awe and in confusion at some of the folks I encounter during fashion week, consistently causing me to mutter to myself or whoever’s in earshot, ‘Is that really necessary?’
Amanda Seales
I am in awe of Hrithik Roshan. He is so fabulous. He is

I am in awe of Hrithik Roshan. He is so fabulous. He is like an all-rounder. I think he deserves to be in a Hollywood film.
Sridevi
AWe musicians can influence, and are responsible to influence, human hearts when we perform. We have to touch them.
Andris Nelsons
I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I’m a big horror fan, but I don’t enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe.
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
I am in awe of women who have full family lives and seem to work round the clock in the 24/7 news cycle.
Jill Abramson
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I’m in awe.
Horton Foote
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
Bono
Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, ‘Oh my God.’ And that sense of awe? It’s the second rule of science.
Howard Bloom
You can’t help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.
Dana Davis
If I could visit dead authors, I’d head right over to E. B. White, though I’m so in awe of him I’d probably just sit at his feet and weep. He’s the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
Elizabeth Berg
I have always tried to live by the ‘awe principle.’ That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?
Craig Hatkoff
Working in Korea with the talent and staff there was very eye-opening. I was in awe of everyone’s talent, passion, and love for the process.
Brian Tee
I’ve always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you’re like, ‘Wow, that’s not a nice person.’
Sandra Bullock
I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane Goodall
People behave differently to TV stars and film stars; it’s to do with the scale of the medium. Film stars get hushed awe, TV stars get slapped on the back. Neither is good for you. Famous people don’t hear the word ‘no’ enough.
Tom Hollander
I don’t think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don’t think I have what it takes to write such a book.
Celeste Ng
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport
I’m so proud that my offspring became a musician. I’m full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
Maxine Hong Kingston
An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
Adam Schiff
Chris Candido – besides loving him like a little brother – I used to sit and watch him in awe because it was so effortless for him. He could wake up from a nap and go out and have a five-star match.
Shane Douglas
I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women’s national team for women’s football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we’ve done in order to become as successful as we have.
Tobin Heath
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Irving Penn
I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
Olivia Wilde
I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I’m in awe of them.
Jessica Chastain
In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Aravind Adiga
Watching David Beckham and Ronaldo scoring all these free-kicks, I was in awe.
Mason Mount
The highs were high, the awe, I’m not a religious person, but I’ll tell you, to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream as if, as you’re breathing, you’re looking down miles and miles and miles, to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on, it’s awe-inspiring.
Diana Nyad
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Thomas Bulfinch
I’m in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.
Jordana Spiro
My dad had the greatest admiration for MacArthur when they were working together in Washington before the Philippines. And Dad used to talk with absolute awe about MacArthur’s brain.
John Eisenhower
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.
Emily Deschanel
I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond an

I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he’s like Don Corleone is he was always breaking off hundreds. I’d be like, ‘Hey Dad, I’m going to McDonald’s with my friends,’ and he’d just whip out a hundred: ‘Here, go, have fun.’
Maz Jobrani
Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‘Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.’
Dolly Parton
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
Theodore Bikel
I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.
Nick Carter
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
I think the core of fans’ relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players’ athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
David Shields
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.
Robin Williams
I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
Berlie Doherty
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
Wayne Dyer
I like Kamal Haasan’s daring choice of roles. When I was in school and college, I modelled myself on him. I was so much in awe of him.
Vikram
For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it’s all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that’s the definition of spectacle.
Diane Paulus
People have come up and told me they were WCW fans from the early ’90s, or they were watching my work in FCW when I first started in the late ’80s, and they’ll spit out a match of mine that they still remember. I stand there in awe, shocked that someone still remembers.
Goldust
I’m useless when I meet writers I love – I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.
Katherine Boo
Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I’ve ever done – for me, at least. I’m now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I’ve dabbled in.
Warren Spector
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Maria Monk
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master’s degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she’s a brilliant second-grade teacher. I’m in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
Idina Menzel