“You make me feel like I can't breathe, like my heart is skipping beats, like I'm about to die, but it's sublime.”— Dominic Dierkes, Rudy, Ed Begley Jr., imdb.com
“Only if the sublime is married to the beautiful and our sensitivity to both has been shaped in equal measure, are we complete citizens of nature, without on that account being its slaves, and without squandering our citizenship in the intelligible world.”— Friedrich Schiller, plato.stanford.edu
“The primeval, the sublime, are much better words here — for they indicate realms remote from the moral or the human, realms which force us to gaze into immense vistas of space and time, where the beginnings and originations of all things lie hidden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.”— Exodus 33:20, biblehub.com