Profound Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

  Michael Crichton

  Our World, True Power, Important

  Michael Crichton (2008). “Timeline”, p.480, Random House

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• She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

  Steve Martin

  Mets, Destroyed

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• Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?" "I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her." "Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.

  Melina Marchetta

  Morning, Queens, Sleep

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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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• I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Names, Needs, Way

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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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• I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Dragons, Imagination

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Metamorphosis

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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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• Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice

  Gary L. Francione

  Order, Rejection, Childhood

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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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• And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Men, Feelings

  Oliver Sacks (1998). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

  Confucius

  Men, World, Standards

  Analects ch. 4, v. 10 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

  Steve Jobs

  Creating, Important, Coins

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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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• God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Saint, May

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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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• Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Vanity, Self, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.58, SCM Press

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