465 Quotes About Profound

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

Art is as useful as bread.

And he whose soul is flat -- the skyWill cave in on him by and by.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.''Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry?' asked the duchess after a pause.'Especially when one has been wounded by it,' answered Lord Henry.