Profound Quotes

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In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and… — Sarah Dessen
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and… — H P Lovecraft
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can… — Bell Hooks
The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease. — Confucius
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter
When we truly understand what it means to love as Jesus Christ loves us, the confusion clears and our priorities align. Our walk as disciples… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous â€” a crisis without equal on earth, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness. — Henry Ford
There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely… — Sue Monk Kidd
I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to… — Elizabeth Gilbert
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. — Carl Jung
When you resort to violence to prove a point, youâ€™ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination. — Sherman Alexie
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who… — Doris Lessing
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even… — David Sedaris
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud… — Bill Bryson
But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best… — Lorrie Moore
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in… — Stephen King

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