Profound Quotes

Profound quotes gathered here span very different settings, from a wry observation about French expressiveness to the lasting historical weight of Hiroshima and the quiet permanence some people feel in owning a home. Each shows that depth can surface in a single sentence, not just a lifetime of reflection.

These profound quotes touch on French expressiveness, Hiroshima's lasting historical weight, and why owning a home can Become something permanent.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Quotes by Adrienne C. Moore

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

Quotes by Wilfred Burchett

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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Quotes by Sigmund Freud

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.

Quotes by Richard Lamm

The profound self is a universal self.

Quotes by Rene Girard

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

Quotes by Rachel Simmons

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Quotes by Paul Theroux

'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

Quotes by O. T. Fagbenle

This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs...

Quotes by Michel Foucault

Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.

Quotes by Matthew Walker

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Quotes by Lynn Johnston

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

I have a profound and unshakable love of good eating.

Quotes by Kim Brooks

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Quotes by Kenny Guinn

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Quotes by Jenny Holzer

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

Quotes by Jennifer Doudna

There are very few profound sayings in the world.

Quotes by Jeff Rich

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Quotes by Jan Morris

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