There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants. . . I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
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.
Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.
Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan Browne, Judee Sill, Sublime Frequencies releases, Ali Farka Touré, John Fahey, Flower Travellin' Band, Sagittarius, Toumani Diabaté, Philip Glass, lots of different stuff.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
[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.
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.
In our learning, let us not neglect the fountain of revelation. The scriptures and the words of modern-day apostles and prophets are the sources of wisdom, divine knowledge, and personal revelation to help us find answers to all the challenges in life. Let us learn of Christ; let us seek out that knowledge which leads to peace, truth, and the sublime mysteries of eternity.
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.
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.