Quotes About Profound

Banality is sometimes striking.

In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

He spoke with a knowledge that's almost completely forgotten, and of which almost nothing completely verifiable can survive. He offered opinions rather than information. He spoke about Balzac as he might have done about himself, as if he himself had once tried to be Balzac. He had a sublime courtesy even in knowledge, a way at once profound and clear of handling knowledge without ever making it seem an obligation or a burden. He was sincere.

It is said that in that distant place, almost at the end of the Ganges, where she sleeps in a darkened room with her lover, she is subject to moods of profound melancholy.

emotions of that order, very subtle, very profound, very carnal, and essential, and completely unpredictable, can hatch entire lives in a body. that's what writing is. it's the pace of the written word passing through your body.

une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse (La conversation à Innsbruck)

The idea of grace had been so much on my mind, grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials.

The feeling of an overplus of meaning in reality, a sense that the world cannot at all be accounted for in its own terms, is a profound bond and understanding between and among religious people.

The concept of the soul is the profoundest possible bond among us, an unshakable basis for compassion, recognition, and love, which, acknowledged, would enable us to love enemies, welcome strangers, and all the rest.

MVLL: Los libros cambian con los tiempos. Con la evolución de la vida cotidiana, los libros se ven desde otra perspectiva y pueden llegar a cambiar de una manera muy profunda

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip-music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.

Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.

Contemplation of this banal maxim increased the depression that had suddenly descended on me.

To have a sense of the profound unity of things is to have a sense of anarchy, -and of the effort required to reduce things while restoring them to unity. Whoever has the sense of unity also has the sense of the multiplicity of things, of that dust of appearances through which one must pass in order to reduce and destroy them.

If the decades and the centuries pass with no indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, the long-term effects on human philosophy will be profound, and may be disastrous. Better to have neighbors we don't like than to be utterly alone. —Arthur C. Clarke

Cuando la belleza es universal pierde su poder de conmovernos, y sólo su falta logra producir algún efecto emocional.

There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.

Nulla è piccolo per una grande mente, sentenziò Holmes.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

He said brokenly many things beautiful in their common-ness.