Quotes About Profound

human life is difficult; there are profundities and compromises and mysteries that look to the innocent eye like betrayal.

I have never been given these words in this way before. This small piece of gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts testimony, one part lamentation.

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.

The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern science-fiction story set ten minutes in the future.

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

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

She struggled to think of anyone besides perhaps James Baldwin and Jesus who had experiences the profound isolation and loenliness she now knew to be the one and only true reality of this world.

There is no objective test for divine revelation, no forensic evidence to evaluate. Even for the believer it is an experience beyond normal comprehension. It is, as T.S. Eliot put it, the intersection of the timeless with time. Mortals on occasion may, perhaps, catch transient glimpses that give intimations of this profound experience, which is the theme of Eliot's poem The Four Quartets.

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.

In the face of these alternatives Jesus came forth with still another. On this point Simkhovitch makes a profound contribution to the understanding of the psychology of Jesus. He reminds us that Jesus expressed his alternative in a "brief formula—The Kingdom of Heaven is in us.

We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made.

Hank's achievement lay elsewhere. He cast the highs and lows of everyday life in terms that were simple enough to register quickly over a car radio or jukebox yet profound enough to bear repeated listening. His songs were the true-to-life blues. Any art form at its best has the one-on-oneness of physical intimacy, and that's what Hank brought to country music.

The greatest writers can project their message in the fewest of words.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.

Perhaps the preacher is hoping to acquire from her reading what I call "middle wisdom." Let's say that middle wisdom consists of insights into life that are more profound than commonplaces, but less so than great proverbs.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

I love Frieda so much I don't like to talk about it. I never knew what love was before…. The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great—quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

There are exceptional moments in history, which show with clarity ? and often with brutality ? that what happens in or around universities is symptomatic of profound, unresolved troubles in the broader society. Hungary is traversing such a moment.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.