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Quotes About Sublime

In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
maybe there is no sublime; only the shining of the amnion's tatters.
~ Galway Kinnell
If the Halcyon days of a Mediterranean winter, god-blessed, were good enough for sublime kingfishers they should certainly have something to offer us all.
~ Bettany Hughes
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
~ Sam Abell
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
extraordinarily beautiful, and slightly out of focus.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Lejano clavicordio que en silencio y olvido no diste nunca al sueño la sublime sonata
~ Ruben Dario
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.
~ Rudolf Steiner
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
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.
~ Anne Rice
And I knew only what all men know, that the cycle of winter and spring and all growing things has within itself some sublime truth that restores without myth or language.
~ Anne Rice
To feed upon the innocent is sublime, but leads inevitably to such a love of human life that the vampire who does it cannot endure for very long.
~ Anne Rice
La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella. Simplemente lo era.
~ Scott Westerfeld
I have been brought up in a world dominated by honor. I have known neither crime, poverty, nor betrayal, and here I taste hatred for the first time: it is sublime, like a thirst for justice and revenge. -the girl who played go
~ Shan Sa
It must have been the sense of having done his whole duty, and expended upon the cause every energy of his being, which enabled him to meet the approaching catastrophe with a calmness which seemed to those around him almost sublime.
~ Shelby Foote
Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worst, it's a tool used to manipulate and ruin anyone who is stupid enough to hold it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
~ John Keats
Everything at this moment is so sublime that Jake thinks, Freeze! I want to stay right here forever. But of course, life doesn't work that way. The waves fold over themselves again and again and again, and nothing can stop them.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones, that there seemed no room for tears.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Better far Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This cathedral! After all, the elaborate grace of the Pisan cathedral is one thing, and the massive grandeur of this of Florence is another and better thing; it struck me with a sense of the sublime in architecture. At Pisa we say, 'How beautiful!' here we say nothing; it is enough if we can breathe. The mountainous marble masses overcome as we look up — we feel the weight of them on the soul.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Perhaps what I was feeling was the thing called awe.
~ Elizabeth Bear