Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it. — Rudolf Steiner
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched… — Guy de Maupassant
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it… — Albert Einstein
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what… — Alexandre Dumas
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his own life's preservation,… — Steven Pressfield
Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, "The conscious water saw its Master and blushed." That… — Ravi Zacharias
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language… — Alexandre Dumas
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying — David Sheff
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world. — Mikhail Bakunin
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. — Haruki Murakami
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or… — Edmund Burke
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for… — Saul Bellow
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who… — Alexandre Dumas
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is… — Victor Hugo
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with… — Victor Hugo
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof… — Tom Robbins
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. — Victor Hugo
There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things that make your… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling… — William Wordsworth
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous. — Theodor Adorno
The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the… — Erin Morgenstern

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