Sublime Quotes

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, Mean

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time, Great, Men

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

Nature, Means, View

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Victor Hugo

Beautiful, Rest, Presents

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

Step, Ridiculous

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II

Mother, Moment, Difficult

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee

Cannot, Wish, Word

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Alexander Pope

Good, Sense, Genius

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac

Great, Once, Race

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Mason Cooley

Novel, Avoids, Seeks

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Time, Failure, Though

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster

Noise, Beethoven, Symphony

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Sun, Poverty, Order

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Havelock Ellis

Faith, Human, Cherish

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
Eric Hoffer

Someone, Giving, Gives

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
Keanu Reeves

Sorry, Existence, Noble

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
Bryant H. McGill

Human, Measure, Seldom

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Beauty, Attractive

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot

Great, Respect, Thief

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Jean Baudrillard

Sex, Price, Higher

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.
Susan Orlean

End, Point, Ocean

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

Art, Poetry, Perhaps

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Courage, Science, Deeply

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee

Happiness, Pain, Brain

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones

Character, Jesus, Before

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
Lafcadio Hearn

Beauty, Great, Respect

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
George Saunders

Beauty, True, Reality

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Love, Enemy, Cannot

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
Ayelet Waldman

Focus, Before, Energy

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
Comte de Lautreamont

Good, Him, Sense

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