Top Sublime Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Sublime quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Alexander Pope
Genius creates, and taste preserves.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Derek Parfit
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing
- Derek Parfit
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Image of George Canning
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.
- George Canning
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Image of Roberto Assagioli
We suffer from a repression of the sublime.
- Roberto Assagioli
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Image of Helene Cixous
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
- Helene Cixous
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Image of Gangaji
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.
- Gangaji
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Image of James Kenneth Stephen
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.
- James Kenneth Stephen
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Image of John Wesley Powell
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
- John Wesley Powell
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Image of Jay DeFeo
Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.
- Jay DeFeo
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Image of William Rounseville Alger
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
- William Rounseville Alger
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Image of Traci Lords
I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love
- Traci Lords
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Image of Michael Light
I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.
- Michael Light
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Image of John Divola
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.
- John Divola
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Image of John Divola
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.
- John Divola
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Image of Peter Vack
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
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Image of Joe R. Lansdale
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
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Image of Henry Miller
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Haruki Murakami
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
- Haruki Murakami
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Image of Theodor Adorno
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
- Theodor Adorno
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Image of Alain de Botton
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.
- Alain de Botton
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Image of Alain de Botton
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
- Alain de Botton
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Image of George Sand
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
- George Sand
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Image of Donna Tartt
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
- Donna Tartt
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Image of Mary Wollstonecraft
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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Image of Tom Robbins
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks
- Tom Robbins
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Image of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Thomas Paine
When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.
- Thomas Paine
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Image of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Image of Zadie Smith
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
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Image of Edmund Burke
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of Thomas Keating
God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
- Thomas Keating
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Image of Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Image of Joseph Campbell
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
- Joseph Campbell
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Image of Jean de la Bruyere
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
- Jean de la Bruyere
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Image of Edmund Burke
One source of the sublime is infinity.
- Edmund Burke
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Image of William Ellery Channing
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
- William Ellery Channing
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Image of Giacomo Casanova
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
- Giacomo Casanova
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Image of Angela Lansbury
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.
- Angela Lansbury
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Image of Eugene Delacroix
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
- Eugene Delacroix
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Image of Mark Z. Danielewski
Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.
- Mark Z. Danielewski
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Image of Mason Cooley
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
- Mason Cooley
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Image of Denis Diderot
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
- Denis Diderot
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Image of John Dryden
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
- John Dryden
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Image of Thomas Aquinas
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Vincent Van Gogh
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Image of Ameen Rihani
We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
- Ameen Rihani
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
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