Quotes About Profound

The indecipherable dust, once Shakespeare.

Like Whitman, Chesterton thought that the mere fact of existing is so prodigious that no misfortune should exempt us from a kind of cosmic gratitude.

Todo libro tiene una línea que lo salva

History is an immense liturgical text where the iotas and the dots are worth no less than the entire verses or chapters, but the importance of one and the other is indeterminable and profoundly hidden.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

America didn't bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

His art, so he tells himself, is to give voice to the ordinary, in memorable ways.

Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?

I make a distinction between the wisdom of age - which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life - and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thought and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance.

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.

Hidup sungguh sangat sederhana. Yang hebat-hebat hanya tafsirannya.

First Appeared in 1721

Instead of dissipating our life in mere commotion, let us endeavor to recollect it so that our activity may be more profound, more consistent and lasting, and directed to eternity.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

But above all, buying is a profound pleasure: it is a discovery, almost an invention.

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race.

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.