Accepting Quote by Alain de Botton

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

— John Ruskin

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

— Joseph Campbell

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...

— Lydia Millet

“Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

— Keanu Reeves

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we…

— Jose Saramago

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

— Anonymous

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

— Maurice Willson Disher