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The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville God Horror Lovecraft Madness Sublime The Sea

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Alberto Caeiro Acceptance Clarity Feeling God Happiness Inevitable Meaning Natural Nature Paganism Pantheism Reality Science Seeing Sublime Tranquility

Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

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What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the accuracy which lies in every detail? They saw many other things and they also saw this, that Nature determined man to be no low or ignoble animal; but introducing us into life and this entire universe as into some vast assemblage, to be spectators, in a sort, of her entirety, and most ardent competitors, did then implant in our souls an invincible and eternal love of that which is great and, by our own standard, more devine. Therefore it is, that for the speculation and thought which are within the scope of human endeavour not all the universe together is sufficient, our conceptions often pass beyond the bounds which limit it; and if a man were to look upon life all around, and see how in all things the extraordinary, the great, the beautiful stand supreme, he will at once know for what ends we have been born.

~ Longinus

Longinus Human Nature Nature Nobility Purpose Sublime

...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or tooviolent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard Beauty Omnipotence Sublime

...With the failure of the imagination to present form the mind discovers that it has the capacity to conceive of the infinite, and thus has the power to transcend everything that sense can measure and thus present. The sublime feeling in this case arises from the play between the finite nature of the senses and the infinite capacity of reason.

~ Nicholas Gane

Nicholas Gane Beauty Deity Sublime Subliminal

Sublimely mysterious and immeasurably powerful, is the stewardship that the sound of music can have over the soul.

~ Tracey Bond

Tracey Bond Power Soul Sound Of Music Spirit Sublime

Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.

~ Matthew Gallaway

Matthew Gallaway Art Benevolent Finances God Sublime

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

~ Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard Art Simplicity Sublimation Sublime Writing

Heaven is thine and so it's mine. Elated, I cannot give to thee but receive it sublime. And if it's there to shine for all to see,.. Vast sea of love for us to seize. Ease the pain with a sweet kiss, water the Flowers...No shadows of a perfect bliss but the sunshine of ours.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

~ Jane Austen

Jane Austen Contemplation Nature Night Sorrow Sublime Wickedness

For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs.... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves.

~ Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton Awe Humility Nature Sublime Technology Wonder

When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, and the soft murmurs of the breeze that scattered her hair and freshened her cheek, and the dashing of the waters that has no beginning or end.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Love Nature Romantic Romanticism Sublime

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.… All that happens to us is divinely great, and we are always in the centre of a great world. But we must accustom ourselves to live like an angel who has just sprung to life, like a woman who loves, or a man on the point of death. If you knew that you were going to die to-night, or merely that you would have to go away and never return, would you, looking upon men and things for the last time, see them in the same light that you have hitherto seen them? Would you not love as you never yet have loved?

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck Death Divinely Great Life Living Love Sublime World

If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains.

~ Alain De Botton

Alain De Botton Mystery Sublime Travel Unfair World

He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious.

~ Asghar Abbas

Asghar Abbas Courage Heroes Sacrifice Sublime

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

~ Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke Admiration Excitement Ignorance Passion Sublime

Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Jeffrey Fry Favor Love Reality Sublime Suspension

Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception which reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Grief Joy Life Soul Sublime

We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck Life Living Sublime

The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

Nicholaus Patnaude Death Gothic Innocence Lost Pain Sadness Sublime

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Feeling Love Pain Soul Sublime Suffering

What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those of us existing in the world of the living, for we possess already a memory, in its stead, which serves as a basis of our perception of the past. Accurate or not, this nature of memory allows us to understand the past according to the positions occupied by the flesh about which we seek to know, but, unfortunately, not in a way relative to the flesh itself—that flesh stripped of identity and circumstance, that flesh which, in its most rudimentary capacity, had once collided, interacted, fought, competed, negotiated, cooperated, and mated with other flesh: there is no history of this kind, thoroughly naked and telling enough, which is accessible to us, for we are composed of the very same substance, the very same flesh, and sadly incapable of stepping outside of it, even momentarily.

~ Ashim Shanker

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Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience.

~ Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke Horror Sublime Terror

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. (A Woman's Vengeance)

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

Jules Barbey D'aurevilly Horror Sublime

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

~ Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Beautiful Sublime

Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the earth, and you hoped that, following you, man, too, would remain with God, having no need of miracles. But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles. And since man cannot bear to be left without miracles, he will go and create new miracles for himself... Oh, there will be centuries of free reason, of their science and anthropophagy... Freedom, free reason, and science willl lead them into such a maze, and confront them with such miracles and insoluble mysteries, that some of them, unruly and ferocious, will exterminate themselves.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Atheism Free Will Freedom Philosophy Sublime

Observing Subjectively; Objecting subjection's intimately. The Sublime from the relaxed state of awe, hatches the state of beauty which flows through.As Above So Below,As Within So Without,The Monad of Experience.

~ Kevin John Kull

Kevin John Kull Philosophy Of Life Quotes Sublime

I do not have a home.I swing on a continuum between ridiculous and sublime.

~ Amit K Ghosh

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What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things, and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...

~ Giambattista Vico

Giambattista Vico Childhood Play Poetry Poets Sublime

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little child - Some think me middling, others silly, other foolish - every one thinks he sees my weak side against my will; when in thruth it is with my will - I am content to be thought all this because I have in my own breast so graet a resource. This is one great reason why they like me so; because they can all show to advantage in a room, and eclipese from a certain tact one who is reckoned to be a good Poet - I hope I am not here playing tricks 'to make the angels weep': I think not: for I have not the least contempt for my species; and though it may sound paradoxical: my greatest elevations of Soul leave me every time more humbled - Enough of this - though in your Love for me you will not think it enough.

~ John Keats

John Keats English Keats Poet Romanticism Solitude Sublime

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature Reverence Sky Stars Sublime

Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.

~ Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes Ineffable Inspirational Observation Reading Science Sublime Vision

Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMan man man man man manGive yourself up to this art where the sublimedoes not exclude charmand brilliancy does not blur the nuanceit is now or never the momentto be sensitive to poetry for it dominatesall dreadfullyGuillaume Apollinaire]

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

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My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me...

~ Virginia Alison

Virginia Alison Gutter Like Idyllic Love Lust Preferences Sublime

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer Resignation Satisfaction Sublime Tragedy

A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises, I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.

~ Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun Existential Existentialism Norwegian Sublime

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Friend Killing Time Sublime

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Gothic Irish Writer Oscar Wilde Sublime Victorian
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