Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day. — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still… — Jack Welpott 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
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to… — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime! — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Yet there was a momentary hint of blue sky, and even this bit of light was enough to release a flash of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image