Sublime Quotes

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers.

How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! - Survey The sun-warm heaven.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!

Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to!

Sublimely mysterious and immeasurably powerful, is the stewardship that the sound of music can have over the soul.

Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.