Profound Quotes

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had… — Victor Hugo
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. — William Faulkner
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared… — William Faulkner
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. — Richard Pryor
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. — Ashleigh Brilliant
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by. — Richard Curtis
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of… — Nikolai Gogol
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to… — Stephen Hawking
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever… — Peter S. Beagle
If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as… — Primo Levi
â€Ž"Those who give up dreams, do injury to their own hearts and cannot possibly enjoy a profound sense of fulfillment in the end. — Daisaku Ikeda
The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us… — Michael Crichton
She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me. — Steve Martin
Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?" "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if… — Melina Marchetta
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if… — John Gardner
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of… — Walt Whitman
I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most… — Nicole Krauss
She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if… — Tanith Lee
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts. — Catherynne M. Valente

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