Quotes About Profound

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.

unspeakable.

it was borne in upon me that I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the German Language.

What is last is what not only needs the longest ante-cedence [Vor-läuferschaft] but what itself is the most profound beginning rather than a cessation, the beginning which reaches out the furthest and catches up to itself with the greatest difficulty. What is last is therefore withdrawn from all calculation and for that reason must be able to bear the burden of the loudest and most repeated misinterpretation. How else could it remain what is surpassing?

Goethe is always pithy.

A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking.

Thinking about paradoxes is the way human understanding advances. I think the Fermi paradox is telling us something very profound about the universe, and our place in it.

It is useless to expect appreciation of his profound and fine senses from such men as the lieutenant.

Even meaning and destiny themselves can be read in ordinary things, if you have the gift.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Not everything that's small is insignificant.

To be what it takes for truly being is the most profound skill among all that exists in any form

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

I don't see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.

Carolyn stared at the toast. She needed to say something profound, something about how grateful she was that he was here, how she felt as though a great weight had been lifted from her, that now she had magic with which to fight the monsters. She said, 'You have cute eyebrows.

The difference between can and must is the key to understanding the profound effects of self-interest on reasoning.