Sublime Quotes

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.