Profound Quotes - Page 9

• But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

  Bill Bryson

  Stars, Home, Sleep

  "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail". Book by Bill Bryson, 1997.

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• But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles. If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.

  Lorrie Moore

  Hurt, Revenge, Fall

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 13, 2010

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• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Sadness, Intuition

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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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• The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Way, Evolution, Describing

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1972). “On love”

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• After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  God, Reading, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2090, Delphi Classics

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• One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.

  Bell Hooks

  Religious, America, People

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• Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

  Confucius

  Stars, Ignorance, Knowledge

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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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• And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

  Anthony Burgess

  Kissing, Stories, Lips

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades. Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering. But the ones that are . . . happen again. So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.

  Vera Nazarian

  Dream, Memories, Opportunity

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• Character is what you are in the dark.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Inspirational Life, Humorous

  Attributed in "D.L. Moody" by William R. Moody, (p. 503), 1930.

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• My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Thinking, Morality

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin

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• So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,” Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold a couple together. But love is the important part—without it you’ve got a meatless pie, and what’s the point of that?” “Why, Freddy,” Minerva said, “that was almost profound.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Couple, Love Is, Pie

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “How to Woo a Reluctant Lady”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

  Alan Moore

  Home, Reality, Perspective

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• The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

  David Hume

  Passion, Heart, Feelings

  David Hume (1772). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An. inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.5

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• I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

  John Green

  Real, Obvious Things, Voice

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.197, Penguin

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• Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Men, Silence

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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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• My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Lines, Way, Attraction

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

  Libba Bray

  Sadness, Moments, Summoning

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Love Is, Bridges

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