Sublime Quotes

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

— George Sand

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Victor Hugo

'Flower' is about the sublime.

— Jenova Chen

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

— Keanu Reeves

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

— Francis of Assisi

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Thomas Paine

“Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime.”

— Andrew Elfenbein

“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”

— Henry Miller

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

— Harry Graham

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

— Victor Hugo

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

— Jean Baudrillard

Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime,…

— Victor Hugo

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

— Anonymous

“I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel,…

— Adrienne Young

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps…

— Charles Dickens

This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and…

— Gary Tonge - Http://VisionAfarcom

The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,…

— Philip Gerard

Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened.

— Francis of Assisi

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know…

— N. T. Wright

“If a PEAK EXPERIENCE is what happens when you actively unplug yourself from the Void – even if just for a second…

— Oli Anderson

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very…

— Anonymous

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,…

— Albert Einstein

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still…

— Jack Welpott

The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is…

— William Hazlitt

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of…

— Henry David Thoreau

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is…

— Lord Byron

Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know…

— Bernice Rubens

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…

— Michael Shermer

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining…

— Mark Twain

“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any…

— Edmund Burke

“But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered…

— Victor Hugo

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume