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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublimeWith the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
— Mason Cooley
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.
— John Bowring
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
— Josh Billings
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
— Edmund Burke
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.
— James Kenneth Stephen
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
— Anthony Bourdain
The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.
— Jos. A. Smith
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
— John Dryden
The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values - something whose like has never been seen on earth
— Fredrich Nietzsche
Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.
— Bryant McGill
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. - THOMAS PAINE
— Dinty W. Moore
Wrap your coat, O sublime dream, around the child.
— Franz Kafka
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
— Charles Spurgeon
The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
— Oscar Wilde
No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have never forgiven someone who has hurt you deeply, you are yet to experience one of the joys of sublime living.
— King Samuel Benson
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.
— Mary Roach
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
— Victor Hugo
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural. — Alberto Caeiro
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
— Helene Cixous
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.
— Vincent Van Gogh
The most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci
— Norman Maclean
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
— William McFee
Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Dick Winters
At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime
— Derek Mahon
The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
— Raf Simons
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
— Mason Cooley
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear.
— Sofia Samatar
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
— Victor Hugo
Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it
— Soren Kierkegaard
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.]
— Estelle Jussim
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
— Victor Hugo
I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
— Alexandre Dumas
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
— William Rounseville Alger
Safely connected to my life, and reassured of my essential goodness, I feel at ease, at home, really in the most sublime of homes. [p. 58]
— Sylvia Boorstein
Nature - the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful - offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot.
— Richard Louv
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
— John Ruskin
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
— Edmund Burke
Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.
— Janeane Garofalo
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.
— Eckhart Tolle
Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They
— John Irving
To make a happy fireside climeTo weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life. — Robert Burns
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
— E. Stanley Jones
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
— Immanuel Kant
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
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
— David O. McKay
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
— William Blake
When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy.
— Fergus McCann
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
— William Blake
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— Thomas Aquinas
One source of the sublime is infinity.
— Edmund Burke
Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the cross-fertilization of cultures.
— Charles C. Mann
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
— Michelangelo
The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.
— Nicholaus Patnaude
It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter.
— Tyne O'Connell
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.
— Rem Koolhaas
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
— Thomas Jefferson
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
— Jean Baudrillard
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
— George Lois
There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
— Pierre Schaeffer
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
— Joseph Campbell
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
— John Wesley Powell
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
— Joseph Addison
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
