Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“She clapped her hands and murmured, "Blue sky, blue eyes," as if it amused her. While we snuggled down there out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.” — Knut Hamsun 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
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I am a huge Sublime fan, and I think their music immediately puts you in SoCal when you listen to it. — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image