Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.” — Maurice Willson Disher 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
Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.” — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly,… — Paul Keating 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
I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God,… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld,… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the… — Eugene Asa Carr Copy Share Image
“Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime.” — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous. — Harry Graham Copy Share Image
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
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