Sublime Quotes - Page 5

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

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

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.