Sublime Quotes

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

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

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.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.