The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are… — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there… — John W. Peterson Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than… — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that's what life is about--the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are two Italies… The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all,… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on…” quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/75c/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-36_age_however-often-we-turn-to-it-the-koran-at_1995602.jpg)
