Quotes About Profound

viscerally, what Genevieve felt, and it wasn't at all amusing.

Let the deep things stay deep.

There was such art in the ordinary, it could leave you in tears.

Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

Dara had a way of making even the mundane extraordinary.

The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

That complete statement which is literature.

Se dice, por ejemplo, que lo más misterioso no es la noche profunda sino el mediodía, el momento en que todas las cosas están instaladas en su evidencia, en el que se desnuda el hecho mismo de la existencia de las cosas. El hecho de que estén allí es más misterioso que la noche, que despierta pensamientos del secreto. Un secreto se descubre, pero un misterio se revela y es imposible descubrirlo.

One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

Your work has been described as touching the soul of the reader. That's the way I felt. Feel. Honestly. You've touched my soul. I'm sorry if I sound like a middle-aged librarian at a book-autographing session.

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

Qué profundo es el oído! Piensa en lo que significa comprender algo que solamente has oído. ¡El carácter casi divino del oído! ¿No es por lo menos un fenómeno semidivino verte ante las inequidades más profundas de una existencia humana por el sencillo procedimiento de permanecer sentado en la oscuridad, escuchando lo que te dicen?

Those who have known pain profoundly are the ones most wary of uttering the clichés about suffering. Experience with the mystery takes one beyond the realm of ideas and produces finally a muteness or at least a reticence to express in words the solace that can only be expressed by an attitude of union with the sufferer. JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN

Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.

So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.

A sorcerer and a whore. Perhaps a certain desperation was to be expected of such unions, as though that strange word, "love," became profound in proportion to the degree one was scorned by others.

the world's many mysteries fascinate me and inspire in me a hope so profound that I suppose, if I were to express it sincerely and at length in a manuscript more bluntly philosophical than this one, any normal person, those who walk freely in daylight, would find it the work of a Pollyanna and worthy only of ridicule.

In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn't leave the enduring scars of profound grief.