Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across… — Etty Hillesum
Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. — Mark Z. Danielewski
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot,… — Immanuel Kant
At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's… — Edgar Guest
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with… — Louis de Bernieres
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know, however, that a… — Julia Glass
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by… — Alexandre Dumas
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a… — Desmond Tutu
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe — Albert Camus
I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you… — Louise GluÌˆck
crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart LISTENING to… — Ellen Hopkins
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too… — Gaston Bachelard
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a… — Richard Dawkins
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A. S. Byatt
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently… — Boris Pasternak

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