Profound Quotes

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

Twenty-four years ago I went through a profound conversion of heart and God led me to the Catholic Church. A few years later I felt Him calling me to start a Bible study program.

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

I think it's really important with kids just to show them the beauty of nature and teach them a profound respect for nature.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

I got a woman I'm loyal to above all things, above my career. She's profound to me. I'm quiet. I live in Kansas City. I work.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

It's the right time of the night for making love.

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing.

In all of its vulnerability, profound sincerity does, in its relationship to knowledge, find its way.

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands what you're saying, and then you're thought to be profound.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.