Quotes About Profound

every day in every life is of the most profound importance.

merely litter, as if it must have some ominous significance. As it gazed at me from the cupped palm of my right hand, I didn't realize that the sounds of the city were diminishing, until suddenly I became aware that a profound silence had fallen over the alleyway. For an instant, I thought that I had gone deaf, but then I heard myself say, "What's happening?

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

Without a window between me and this absolute-black sky, the effect of such undetailed heavens was profound, frightening not just because of the uncanny darkness but also for a reason that eluded me. Or perhaps the reason was not elusive. Maybe I dreaded acknowledging and considering it, for fear that contemplation would soon sweep me out of the main currents of sanity, into a tributary of madness.

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

I'm drawn to dark characters, and to things that are really weighty.

I'm like a pretty deep dude.

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say

Even at her worst she made you think, and that's worth something in a person.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

Was a sadness so profound that the mind sought escape into fantasy?

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

They had such a profound effect on those who sang and heard them that the ancient chants became known as "the beautiful mystery.

There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Imprisoned in a cage of sound Even the trivial seems profound

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?