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Quotes About Profound

Young? He'd hear his own harsh, pained laugh. Oh, no, not this lass. She's old. She walked under a blood-red moon in the dawn of time, did this one. Her face is the face of all that cannot be fathomed, and she's looking you in the eye, Whiskeyjack, and you'll never know what she's thinking.
~ Steven Erikson
Unwitnessed. There was crime in that notion. A profound injustice against which he railed. In silence. Like every other soldier in the Bonehunters. Maybe. No, I am not mistaken – I see something in their eyes. I can see it. We rail against injustice, yes. That what we do will be seen by no-one. Our fate unmeasured.
~ Steven Erikson
with each night they fell back farther, closer to that place where the will to live surrendered to a profound peace.
~ Steven Erikson
Coping with the uncertainty of larger cosmic objective meaning may be one of the most profound challenges sufficiently aware beings have to face [...]. Indeed, human beings might be further along in this regard than may be commonly thought—much of the human population seems to able to cope without religion and without a larger sense of cosmic meaning and purpose.
~ Steven J. Dick
Disappointment for Slavs is always more poetic and profound, as well as more frequent, than it is for Americans.
~ Stuart Rojstaczer
For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers.
~ Jodie Evans
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
~ James Patterson
Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.
~ James Taylor
Love is just love it can not be expressed in just 3 words
~ Utsav Sharma
There are many soul-stirring things in this world, but not many as profound as watching the beautiful man you love holding the baby you created together. No, not many.
~ Mia Sheridan, Stinger
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
~ Lois Lowry
y con ningua otra he hablado nunca sobre todo lo imaginable con mayor intensidad y, por tanto, disposición para comprender y, por tanto, he podido pensar con mayor intensidad y disposición para comprender sobre todo lo imaginable, y nadie me ha dejado nunca mirar nunca dentro de sí más profundamente y a nadie he dejado mirar nunca dentro de mí más profunda y desconsideradamente y cada vez más desconsiderada y profundamente.
~ Thomas Bernhard
The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silence.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it. You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.
~ Thomas Hardy
Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant, and such a sort of intensity was often arrived at during
~ Thomas Hardy
Pe ce se bazeaz? oare un poet a c?rui filozofie e socotit? ast?zi ca fiind tot atât de profund? È™i de valabil? pe cît îi e cîntul de proasp?t È™i de pur, cînd vorbeÈ™te despre "planurile divine ale naturii"?
~ Thomas Hardy
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
~ Thomas Mann
the mysterious connection that must be established between the generic and the particular to produce human beauty
~ Thomas Mann
Great words, being worn out, do a poor job of expressing the extraordinary. This is better accomplished by using ordinary words to the uttermost extent of their meaning.
~ Thomas Mann
Der Einzelfall ist nie gewöhnlich: das Allergewöhnlichste für den Gedanken und die Aussage sind Geburt und Tod: wohne aber einer Geburt bei oder einem Sterben und frage dich, frage die Kreißende oder den Abscheidenden, ob das etwas Gewöhnliches ist!
~ Thomas Mann
Kocham i szanuj? sen. Czcz? g??bok?, s?odk?, krzepi?c? rozkosz, jak? daje.
~ Thomas Mann
On the book Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me) Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch. Hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous all at the same time.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Aye, some of us have never seen him, only heard his steps on the nights when there is no Moon, or his voice, speaking from above the only words he knows,— 'Eyeh asher Eyeh,' "—in on which, in Tones hush'd, though ominous, the others now join. "That is, 'I am that which I am,'" helpfully translates a somehow nautical-looking Indiv. with gigantick Fore-Arms, and one Eye ever a-Squint from the Smoke of his Pipe.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The nature of mental illness is to remove one from the normal constraints, perceptions, and understandings of the world around, whatever one's rational self may say. It is not merely a question of feeling but of the world being a different sort of place in all one's perceptions. The struggle this brings, and with the struggle the disassociation from those around one, is profound and utterly overwhelming.
~ Kathryn Greene-McCreight