Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to…

Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

— Mason Cooley

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

— Emile M. Cioran

A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating…

— Pema Chodron

In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself…

— Geoffrey Fisher

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

— Nigel Kennedy

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness…

— Ron Lamothe

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your…

— Virginia Woolf

I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

— Steve Coogan

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

— Yves Klein