Quotes About Sublime

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 colour across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quiet 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 beautiful, we quiver before it

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before

All right," said Julian, looking around the table. "I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?

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.

La belleza es terror. Temblamos ante todo lo que llamamos bello.

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. And

Similarly, in A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Burke depicted the investigation of the springs and the tracing of the courses of the passions as part of a larger search into 'the general scheme of things', in so far as the goal was to reduce the complex to 'utmost simplicity', and thus 'communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity'.

Of self-sacrifice the Cross is the sublimest of all illustrations. It has cost God something to love.

The commonplace deserves every bit as much attention as the sublime.

Não é preciso ser ingente para ser sublime

all the grace I saw then was his own: simple, unadorned, glorious.

Why the hell does everybody want to succeed? I'd like to meet somebody who wanted to fail. That's the only sublime thing.

Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They

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.

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take: From something of material sublime, Rather than shadow our own soul's day-time In the dark void of night. For in the world We jostle, - but my flag is not unfurl'd...

Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Awkwardness is a warning against complacency. A connection with the incomprehensible achieved only through immersion in contemporary life, a moment of awareness of the gap between your perception and understanding. It is the urbane corollary to the antique sublime: the social vista that slaps you in the face with the breadth of what you still don't understand.

La cultura, señores! Y dentro de ella, la más sublime de las artes. La poesía.

Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned.

inebriation brings about for an hour or two a state of subjective idealism, pure phenomenalism; everything is reduced to appearances and exists only as a function of our sublime self.