Profound Quotes

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The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than… — Flora Rheta Schreiber
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. — David Levithan
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. — Victor Hugo
He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast… — Edith Wharton
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade… — Maurice Blanchot
...a taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like… — John Green
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. — Stephen Crane
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror,… — Douglas Kennedy
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine… — Marcel Proust
She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior… — Douglas Adams
...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound. — Melody Beattie
In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers,… — Edgar Allan Poe
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want… — Maureen Corrigan
To love light, you have to love dark. I'm not trying to be profound, I know you'll understand. I don't mean that you have to… — Alaya Dawn Johnson
In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew… — Art Spiegelman
Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we canâ€™t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our… — Nikki Giovanni
The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault. — Sylvia Plath
This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It… — Anne Lamott
The professor leaned forward. â€œBut thereâ€™s nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.â€ Her lovely face turned fierce. â€œThink about it Cath. Thatâ€™s… — Rainbow Rowell
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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