Quotes About Sublime

Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game.

Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing.

If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son of God can undergo judgement of shit, then human existence loses its dimensions and becomes unbearable light.

Estaba enamorado de su propio destino y le parecía que incluso su marcha hacia la perdición era sublime y hermosa.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

Omne ignotum pro magnifico. Tout ce qui est inconnu paraît insurmontable.

It's a powerful statement and one that Whitney sings with a grandeur that approaches the sublime. Its universal message crosses all boundaries and instills one with the hope that it's not too late for us to better ourselves, to act kinder. Since it's impossible in the world we live in to empathize with others, we can always empathize with ourselves. It's an important message, crucial really, and it's beautifully stated in this album.

Maybe I would like to see beauty again before I die." "Bah. What would you carve? What would you see before you die? What could be worth your life?" "Man's nobility—the most sublime form of beauty.

if the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection between God, nature, and man.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Perhaps that's what life is about—the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Art is the production of the beautiful and the sublime in nature and man.

Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.

Las cosas mas maravillosas son siempre las inexpresables.

Only in the late eighteenth century, with Burke and his theory of the sublime, Wordsworth and his mountains, Rousseau and his thoughts on Nature, did any sense of the romantic appeal of such wilderness areas begin in Europe. But having discovered such a sensibility ourselves, there has always been a reluctance to ascribe it to any other culture, let alone one which might have come to it before us.

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.

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

They inhabited what ancient Oceanic peoples called "the Dreamtime," a gauzy, blissful place located somewhere between our generally-agreed-upon reality and any number of sublime alternate states.

Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to!

You're not beautiful, you're breathtaking.

Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.

How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?