Profoundly Quotes

435 Profoundly quotes by 373 unique authors

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the… — Thornton Wilder
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it… — Alexander Hamilton
Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy… — Paulo Coelho
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to… — Malcolm Gladwell
Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.... — Isabel Allende
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will… — Frederick Buechner
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! — Friedrich Nietzsche
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. — Douglas Adams
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as… — Rollo May
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and… — Simone de Beauvoir
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic… — Mary MacLane
...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind. — Aldous Huxley
The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one another’s… — Sebastian Junger
They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to… — Virginia Woolf
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves,… — Hermann Hesse
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the… — Pat Conroy
And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon… — Michael Moorcock
But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful… — D. H. Lawrence
Amy was profoundly shocked. "A little over an hour ago, our bus was attacked by three men in ski masks. They definitely knew me, and… — Gordon Korman
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God… — R C Sproul
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made… — John Piper
I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. — Bertrand Russell

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