Sublime Ridiculous Quotes

#1. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. - THOMAS PAINE

Dinty W. Moore

#2. Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Jay DeFeo

#3. We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Georges Bernanos

#4. Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

Derek Mahon

#6. For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. How much of what we do, from the ridiculous to the sublime, would not be done if we did not die? In tha blank face of mortality we always ask , "What's next?

Thomas Lynch

#8. When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Thomas Paine

#9. He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

William Manchester

#10. Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

Peter Drury

#11. Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Mary Roach

#12. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

John Niven

#13. In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

Ben Sidran

#14. All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime,

Marshall McLuhan

#15. There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#16. Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

Charles Ludlam

#17. When we travel, we aim for the sublime. It's the ridiculous stuff, however, that we tend to treasure the most.

Erik Torkells

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Theodor Adorno

#20. While master of myself, I'll not permit
The soothing beauty of a tear to roll
Along the crooked contours of this nose.
There's a sublimity in tears; and I
Would not debase them;
I would never turn
Something sublime to the ridiculous.

Edmond Rostand

#21. All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Lucretius

#22. Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

Harry Graham