Profound Quotes

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

One should never be where one does not belong.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

So, are we equals? Until he answer is yes, we must never stop asking.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.

Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

The energy of gratitude catapults us into the most profound experiences imaginable.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.