Profound Quotes - Page 9

• 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 true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

  Primo Levi

  Happy Times, Sorrow, Calling

  Primo Levi (1984). “The periodic table”, Schocken

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• ‎"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

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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• 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 not profound.

  John Gardner

  Spring, Inspiration, Writing

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• 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 business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Ideas, Silence

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• 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 sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

  Tanith Lee

  Sleep, Essence, Grasping

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Love, Men, Order

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Creative

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• There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

  Thomas Mann

  Lying, Artist, Simple

  "Death in Venice". Book by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke. Chapter 3, 1912.

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• The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Mystery, Another Man

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.62, Image

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• Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Law, World

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3445, Delphi Classics

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• when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

  Galen Beckett

  Priorities, Matter, Making Time

  Galen Beckett (2012). “The Master of Heathcrest Hall”, p.92, Spectra

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• Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

  Ned Vizzini

  Middle, Profound Truth

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• A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Hurt, Two

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.170, Penguin

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• True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

  Clive Barker

  Grief, True Joy, Remember

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Nov 21, 2012

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• Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

  Gail Carriger

  Meaningful, Ivy, Gestures

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• Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

  James A. Baldwin

  Echoes, Desire, Causes

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• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Country, Men

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• In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Eye, Evil, People

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• It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Portraits, Driving, Eating

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

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• Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

  Gayle Forman

  Pain, Loss, Feelings

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.111, Penguin

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• There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Loneliness, Sea

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?

  Malika Oufkir

  Morning, Fun, Years

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• I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Taken, Eye, Two

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Pills, Odd Things

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

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• Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Fashion, Responsibility, Animal

  "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.

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