Sublime Quotes

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is ...

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

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A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent...

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the ...

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a sin...

...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Co...

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child -...

Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-h...

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happen...

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

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

If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surpris...

For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe...

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first ink...