Quotes About Profound

the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

My story can't be summed up in two or three sentences; it can't be packaged into something neat and simple that people would immediately understand.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

Banaras is a mystical city. It is not easy to know that city well.

if he had said otherwise. To admit that a thermonuclear catastrophe would be the end of civilization and of the biosphere would be, in religious terms, profane and defeatist. All religions must, at their core, look forward to the end of this world and

When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion. Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.

My boy, this is the second time today that wisdom has spoken through your mouth...!

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity.

When things went wrong they had the consolations of religion. This wasn't just a readiness to accept Fate; this was a quiet and profound conviction about the vanity of all human endeavour.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.

Abstruse speculations contain vertigo.

What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

Vi sono abissi che salvano.

Qué son las convulsiones de una ciudad al lado de los motines del alma? El hombre es más profundo que el pueblo.

It felt both profoundly magical and beautifully ordinary.

Sometimes a story sneaks up on you, hits you hard and dares you to look away. That was the case with The Nightingale. In

Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.

You are not trivial.

The experience bestowed a strange psychological legacy, leaving Steinbeck with a profound sense of vulnerability which shaped him as a writer.

Willie sat with her elbow on the table, her hand shading her eyes. "I wish you knew how remarkable you are, Ella. So much deeper than anybody else I know. Even the grownups." "Is that good, Willie? To be deep?

Everyone cried when the creature first spoke to them. No, not cried. They wept. They wept like the cavemen of Lascaux suddenly transported into the Sistine Chapel just in time for a live performance of Phantom of the Opera as sung by Tolkien's elves. Their senses simply were not built for this, weren't meant to come anywhere near this kind of velvet-barreled sensory shotgun, loaded for bear.