Standing before what is greater than oneself: the test of the sublime
Before the immense, worry shrinks and the soul breathes.
The Romantics sought out the high mountain, the sea, the storm or the night sky to feel the : that mixture of vertigo and exaltation before what overwhelms us. To expose oneself willingly to something vaster than oneself dislodges the self for a moment from its worries and reopens the sense of the infinite that busy life covers over. A salutary counterpoint to a world where everything is on our scale and under control.
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Source: Romanticism