Sublime Quotes

• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Giving
  • Ocean
  • Brilliant

• My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

  

  Hedda Sterne
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting
  • Sublime

• The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Courage
  • Discover

• Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Achieved
  • Proportion
  • Sublime

• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  

  Wil McCarthy
  • Strong
  • Thing
  • Found

• 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!

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Believe
  • Spring
  • Sublime

• To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Challenge
  • Sublime
  • Mundane

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