Top 624 Sublime Quotes & Sayings

One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

'Flower' is about the sublime.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.

I use vinegars to deglaze saute pans for sublime sauces.

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

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

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as sublime. Because even though people were dying, it was such a huge sensory experience that it became sublime.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

Yes, I know, we are merely empty forms of matter, but we are indeed sublime in having invented God and our soul. So sublime, my friend, that I want to gaze upon matter, fully conscious that it exists, and yet launching itself madly into Dream, despite its knowledge that Dream has no existence, extolling the Soul and all the divine impressions of that kind which have collected within us from the beginning of time and proclaiming, in the face of the Void which is truth, these glorious lies!

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

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

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

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

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

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

I listen to a lot of Sublime. Dude, I'm obsessed with Sublime. You have no idea.

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of practice. And, as one would expect, the feeling of guilt promotes hate and brazenness. Thus it seems that the more sublime the faith the more virulent the hatred it breeds.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.