Quotes About Profound

Though [Jesus'] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.

There are things about the Jewish religion that I carry with me to this day. Chief among them is Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, as it's so happily called. It had a profound effect on my innocent young mind. The service opens with the organ playing "Kol Nidre," one of the spookiest pieces of music ever written. You hear it and literally are surprised bats and sh*t aren't flying around.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Whatever it is, it is older than I am. It is ancient. It is from the very deepest parts of life.

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.

ConversaÈ›ia cu Francis îmi d?dea senzaÈ›ia unei scufund?ri lente în adâncul oceanului

It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one's hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.

And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation. - Toru Okada

Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.

I first read 'An American Tragedy' in college, and in my entire life I had never read anything so painful.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

Climate change is transforming the world in profound ways that continue to evolve.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I giorni solenni dell'esistenza hanno in sé una luminosità più intensa di quelli consueti.

She drew a swift breath, and let it out on the words: "I love you—more than I've ever loved anyone. I love you so profoundly it goes beyond all reason. And I could never let you go—let you be taken from me—that would be the same as letting life itself go, because you are life to me.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.