Light Quote by Edmund Burke

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

— George Canning

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

— Joseph Campbell

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of…

— Eleanor Catton

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

— Eugene Delacroix

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

— George Eliot

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli

Once you have tasted the light of living the darkness somehow seems even more bitter when you go back to it.

— Me

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

— Joseph Cornell

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

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

— Joshua Reynolds

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

— Barbara Kingsolver