Profound Quotes - Page 8

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  When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

  Sherman Alexie

  Imagination, Violence, Resorts

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Aug 06, 2015

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• Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

  Doris Lessing

  Might, Pressure, Form

  Doris May Lessing (1966). “Children of Violence”

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• She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.

  Mario Puzo

  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.345, Penguin

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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 was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Believe, Fall

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.99, Penguin

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• Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Needs, Growing, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

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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 furnish the answer.

  Confucius

  Music, Desire, Quality

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• By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Religious, Fire

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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, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Night, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 3 (1859)

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• Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

  Andre Gide

  Optimism, Sides

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• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Perfect, Miracle

  Walt Whitman (1991). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Might, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.198, Vintage

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• ...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Believe, Knowledge

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1993). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Powerful, Inspiration, Humble

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• If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

  Confucius

  Inspiring, Children, Years

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• ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

  Michael Pollan

  Mind, Culture, Engagement

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Jewels, Lovely

  "Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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• Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.

  F.B. Meyer

  Son, Men, Hands

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• Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language!

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Issues, Sea

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• I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

  Anne Frank

  Forgotten, Comic, Thinker

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.194, Bantam

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• Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

  Ian Mcewan

  Gratitude, Regret, Men

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, March 11, 2010.

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• On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Memories, Eye

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• I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Regret, Home, Two

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• For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like.

  James Frey

  Children, Heart, Broken

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• 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 those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

  Michael Moorcock

  Cousin, Lying, Destiny

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric: The Sleeping Sorceress”, p.312, Del Rey

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• ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Turns

  William Faulkner (1972). “Light in August”, Vintage

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