A Quote by Lion Feuchtwanger

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

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Lion Feuchtwanger
German - Novelist
July 7, 1884 - December 21, 1958

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.

Thomas Paine

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Theodor Adorno

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

Jay DeFeo

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

Harry Graham

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

Derek Mahon

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.

Zadie Smith

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

Peter Drury

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

Ben Sidran

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Unknown

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Mary Roach

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.

Paolo Sorrentino

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Thomas Paine

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

Anthony Bourdain

When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can kind of live in the same moment, holding hands together. How life can go from the ridiculous to the sublime to the tragic all in one breath.

Peter Vack

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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