Profound Quotes

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

You cannot hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Our public spaces are as profound as we allow them to be.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—

God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.

All truth is profound.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

You can change the world with a hot bath, if you sink into it from a place of knowing that you are worth profound care, even when you're dirty and rattled.