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Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime
With 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

Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime. — Jeffrey Fry

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 practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning, — Idries Shah

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural. — Edmund Burke

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence. — Adyashanti

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

Onward and sublime
Will ever glide
The silent stream of Time,
That bears us on its tide. — Harvey Rice

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

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it. — Mina Loy

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 sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. — George Eliot

The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime. — Lynn Cullen

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

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas. — William James

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo

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

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

One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime. — Johnny Depp

Whenever the mind tries to ascend into realms of new and sublime abstraction, matter persists and confines it in the cellar of habit. — Juan Filloy

The most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci — Norman Maclean

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan W. Watts

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 us
We 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

He was natural and sublime, but had not so much as a single spark of good taste, or knew one rule of the drama. — Voltaire

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

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime. — Immanuel Kant

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. — Erik Satie

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

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire

To make a happy fireside clime
To 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

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. — Joyce Grenfell

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe — Albert Camus

I have to say it's the most sizzling, delicious, sublime kiss ever. In the history of human beings. Possibly back to and including dinosaurs. — Jody Gehrman

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

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

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 life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. — George Sand

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

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. — Isaac Watts

My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me... — Virginia Alison