Sublime Quotes

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

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

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

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

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

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

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

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

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

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

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.

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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.

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

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

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

I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.