When we travel, we aim for the sublime. It's the…

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

— Michelangelo

Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel…

— Robert Lowell

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

— Donna Tartt

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments…

— Julia Roberts

“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary…

— Leo Tolstoy

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers…

— John Pfahl

With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

— Immanuel Kant

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

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

— Henry Miller