Quotes by Sublime I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime. Vincent Van Gogh no-friends sublime christianity I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences. Virginia Woolf sublime silence people The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. Voltaire sublime grace perfection My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime. W. S. Gilbert punishment sublime time The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes. W. Somerset Maugham sublime consciousness brain What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head. Walter Darby Bannard green sublime artist The sublime is contained in a grain of dust. Walter Savage Landor sublime dust time I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't illuminate you, although it has factually correct entries, millions of them. But these rare moments of illumination that you find when you read a great poem, you instantly know. You instantly feel this spark of illumination. You are almost stepping outside of yourself and you see something sublime. Werner Herzog illumination sublime phones The most sublime act is to set another before you. William Blake self-sacrifice sacrifice sublime Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. William Blake execution sublime ideas What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! William Ellery Channing doctrine sublime goodness Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. William James philosophical sublime philosophy He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. William Manchester sublime noble men Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! William McFee sublime passion men How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! William Rounseville Alger tautology audacious sublime I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor sublime culture art Something in me was changed by Lincoln in the Bardo, and the great sublime/grotesque risk of [George Saunders'] ghosts was a part of it. Zadie Smith sublime risk ghost What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half. Zadie Smith sublime balance half 'Flower' is about the sublime. Jenova Chen about sublime flower «4567891011121314
