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The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes…

— Thomas Paine

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

— Anthony Bourdain

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

Every time you check the weather, search for a spot to grab your morning coffee or send a text message, you're getting hands-on with…

— Michael Waltz

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When we travel, we aim for the sublime. It's the ridiculous stuff, however, that we tend to treasure the most.”

— Erik Torkells

“From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.”

— William Hazlitt

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

— Theodor Adorno

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible,…

— Edmund Burke

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

— Henry Miller

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

— Anonymous

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton