Sublime Quotes

• 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

• Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Father

• The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Feelings

• In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Language
  • Bible
  • Psalms

• 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

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

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Achieved
  • Proportion
  • Sublime

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

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Challenge
  • Sublime
  • Mundane

• 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

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