There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.