Quotes about Sublime

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The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rathe — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevita — Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom,’ ‘Virtue,’ ‘Heroism,’ ‘sublime hours,’ and ‘great moments of life,’ — Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjo — Amy Leigh Mercree
What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the accuracy which lies in — Longinus, On Great Writing
We hold hands together delicately and sublimely and look longingly into each other’s eyes. — Avijeet Das
Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to! — Avijeet Das
...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with object — Jean-François Lyotard, Peregrinations Law Form (Wellek Library Lectures
...With the failure of the imagination to present form the mind discovers that it has the capacity to conceive of the in — Nicholas Gane, Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization Versus Re-enchantment
Sublimely mysterious and immeasurably powerful, is the stewardship that the sound of music can have over the soul. — Tracey Bond, Spirit Fed Entrepreneur: Growing Your Business with a Fearless Mindset
Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach. — Matthew Gallaway, #Gods
The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a comp — Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Heaven is thine and so it's mine. Elated, I cannot give to thee but receive it sublime. And if it's there to shine for a — Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and the — Jane Austen
For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the ic — Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that re — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happens to us is divinely — Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things shou — Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious. — Asghar Abbas
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions. — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful