Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. — John Wesley Powell
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other… — Toni Morrison
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were… — Emily Carr
As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter… — J. Sidlow Baxter
Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual. — Tom Ford
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit… — Gregory of Nazianzus
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. — Isaac Newton
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. — Lion Feuchtwanger
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but… — Oswald Chambers
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing — Derek Parfit
By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be… — David Deida
Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese… — Charles Harper Webb
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which… — Charles Darwin
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal,… — Charles Dickens
The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar. — Oscar Wilde
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to… — Reginald Horace Blyth
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the… — Victor Hugo
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. — Armstrong Williams
Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered… — Victor Hugo
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of… — Edward Gibbon

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