#sublime

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

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. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#carry #darkness #interests #me #principal

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contrast #even #everything #little #need

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#activity #asking #brain #degrees #electrical

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. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#compatriots #consider #difficult #difficult moment #duty

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#around #boxer #confidence #dance #dreams

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

— Eric Hoffer

#giving #his #someone #sublime #us

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#sublimest #things #truth #world

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#cherish #faith #human #imbecility #led

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