Quotes About Sublime

Maidstone exerts a curious spell upon the observer: suggesting, in its somewhat blunt, foursquare architecture, and its towering chimneys and exceptionally tall, narrow, and "brooding" windows, frequently kept shuttered, an unusual blend of the funereal and the sublime. As

I am an accomplished flirt and you are a sublime fool.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people.

Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

Taoists, on the other hand, speak not of a supreme being but of a supreme state of being – a sublime state that lies deeply locked within every human being and can be reached only through the greatest personal effort and self-discipline.

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

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

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. - The Secret History

emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

And what is beauty?" "Terror.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the

Beauty is terror

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky- so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

beauty is terror, whatever we call beauty we quiver before it

Many years later, understanding it all, the Baron de Luetz, who survived, used to tell how that day they left the Sublime Porte to the measure of the Chorea Machabaeorum, the Danse Macabre, the Danza General de los Muertos.

I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it

In Florence the sublime and terrible go hand in hand: Savonarola's Bonfires of the Vanities and Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Niccolò Macchiavelli's The Prince, Dante's Inferno and Boccaccio's Decameron.

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.

From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.