“You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing,… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity. — Shiko Munakata Copy Share Image
“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy… — Tom Shroder Copy Share Image
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you take some words at random and put them together, it becomes gibberish, and everyone who knows the meaning of words… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from,… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
The real deep text of music and the whole reason that it has continued with the profundity and urgency that it has… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image