Sublime Quotes - Page 8

• A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

  Charles Lamb

  Distance, Doors, Want

  6 Copy quote

• True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

  Bayard Taylor

  Realization, World, Lebanon

  Bayard Taylor (1864). “The Lands of the Saracen, Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.120

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

  John Muir

  Love Is, Boss, Divine

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.308, The Mountaineers Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Light, Wrecks, Sacred

  John Bowring, “The Cross Of Christ”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

  Ernest Bramah

  Winning, Names, Numbers

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.345, e-artnow

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Giacomo Casanova

  Should, Mediocre, Sonnet

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.143, JHU Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  Wil McCarthy

  Crush, Strong, Love Is

  Wil McCarthy (2009). “The Collapsium”, p.319, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Silence, Tears

  43 Copy quote

• Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Home, Heart

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world”, p.106

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.

  Milton R. Hunter

  Father, School, Opportunity

  4 Copy quote

• And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

  Thomas Paine

  Beautiful, Eye, Views

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Lying, Mean

  16 Copy quote

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

  Mary Roach

  Space, Lines, Ridiculous

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.11, Oneworld Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sleep, Rays

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Distance, Degrees

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to be a part of it, if just in spirit and Don's desire for it to be a good film and for me to be happy with it. When I first saw it I was very impressed, and it gets better with repeat viewings.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Get Better, Desire, Saws

  Source: thequietus.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

  Andrew Solomon

  Art, Lines, Pleasure

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Matter

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ugly, Wells, Brethren

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is an inferior level in just the way of Diana's long shot in the dark while drunk. That shot is inferior in a certain respect if too poorly selected as a hunter's archery shot, even if not quite as poorly selected as would be a shot aimed at the moon. Even if Diana's too risky shot turns out to be apt by attaining success through sublime archery dexterity, it is still inferior in the particular respect of being so risky and hence so poorly selected.

  Ernest Sosa

  Dark, Animal, Moon

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history."

  Paul Kengor

  Valleys, Knees, Praying

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  George Saunders

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Balance, Half, Argument

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it.

  Zadie Smith

  Risk, Ghost, Grotesque

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Historical, Disappointed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source