Profound Quotes
1328 quotes by 1008 authors
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For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious…
— Bell Hooks
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And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.
— Anthony Burgess
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
— Confucius
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If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will…
— Confucius
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration,…
— Charles Dickens
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When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the…
— Vera Nazarian
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Character is what you are in the dark.
— Dwight L. Moody
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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said.…
— Frank Herbert
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So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take…
— Elizabeth Chandler
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I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,†Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to…
— David Hume
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LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me…
— Alan Moore
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I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really…
— John Green
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Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His…
— Charlaine Harris
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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or…
— D. H. Lawrence
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My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between…
— Augusten Burroughs
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