Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty… — John Keats
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money… — Henry David Thoreau
Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But… — Robert Montgomery
...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around!—Survey The… — Robert Montgomery
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in… — Henry David Thoreau
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. — George Canning
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless… — Eric Hoffer
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never set eyes on,… — Louis Kronenberger
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of… — Sivananda
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! — William McFee
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for… — Allen Ginsberg
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid… — Amy Lowell
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and… — Gottfried Leibniz
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so… — Richard Louv
Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside… — Swami Muktananda
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime. — Marvin Gaye
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as… — Gary Clark, Jr.
And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun… — Donna Tartt
The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. — Arthur Schopenhauer
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny… — Ian Hornak

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