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Quotes About Sublime

They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.
~ Thomas Hardy
They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.
~ Thomas Hardy
Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a coffin as an absolutely lovely piece of furniture, even when it's empty, and if there's someone lying in it, it's really quite sublime in my eyes.
~ Thomas Mann
Don't you like the sight of a coffin? I really do. I find it a handsome piece of furniture, even empty; when someone is lying in it, then, in my eyes, it is positively sublime.
~ Thomas Mann
Reposar en la perfección es el anhelo de todo el que se esfuerza por alcanzar lo sublime; y ¿no es acaso la nada una forma de perfección?
~ Thomas Mann
It was a scent that lacked coyness, made no concessions to charm. Like standing on the edge of a great and terrifying cliff, it was shocking, beautiful, sublime.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
I have seen the absolute black; it was unspeakably beautiful.
~ C.P. Cavafy
It was one of those almostmoments
~ Callie West
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
~ Immanuel Kant
But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.
~ Iris Murdoch
The tone of her skin, with its soft bluish lights, and of her hair, and as well as her slow movements and silent character, all made one think of some inhabitant of the sea.
~ Isabel Allende
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.
~ Elbert Hubbard
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?
~ Friedrich Jacobi
A heaven on earth.
~ John Milton
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Kazue's journals depict an absolutely sublime struggle, the struggle between an individual and the rest of the world. Kazue lost the battle, ended up completely alone, and died hungry for some measure of kindness from another person. Don't you think it's a sad story?
~ Natsuo Kirino
Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?
~ Charles Baudelaire
Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Hay que ser sublime sin interrupción
~ Charles Baudelaire
La moda, pues, debe considerarse un síntoma del gusto por lo ideal que flota en el cerebro humano por encima de todo cuanto la vida natural deposita en él de grosero, de terrestre y de inmundo, como una deformación sublime de la naturaleza, o más bien como un intento permanente y sucesivo de reformar la naturaleza. También
~ Charles Baudelaire
the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
~ Charles Bukowski
Dar te-ndragesc jivina de neinduplecat Chiar si-n raceala-n care sublim te-ai ferecat
~ Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Her lack of magnificence in a magnificent world
~ Thomas Wolfe