Profound Quotes

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The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors… — W G Sebald
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a… — Marcel Proust
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa. — Ella Leya
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan,… — Ron Rash
The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world… — Earl Nightingale
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's… — Archie Shepp
I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly… — Paloma Faith
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library… — Guillermo del Toro
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they… — Emile Zola
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different… — Charles Simmons
In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many… — Lowell Milken
The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability… — Pope John Paul II
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. — Elizabeth Kim
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books. — Baltasar Gracian
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous. — George Bernard Shaw
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless… — Eric Hoffer
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must… — Robert Breault
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.… — Aldous Huxley

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