What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors. . . . You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
Jerusalem is. . . the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone. . . a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified. . . . after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They choose reason over custom. They fix their minds on the sublime and let their bodies change with the seasons.