Profound Thought Quotes

“I wasn’t sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.”
― Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

“In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality.”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“Life is a gift, but living is a choice.”
― Debasish Mridha

“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the certainty of belief. The certainty that your life has purpose and meaning.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I felt my spirits lift. I would leave the map of my life here, in Jaipur. I would leave behind a hundred thousand henna strikes. I would no longer call myself a henna artist but tell anyone who asked : I healed, I soothed. I made whole. I would leave behind the useless apologies for my disobedience. I would leave behind my yearning to rewrite my past. My skills, my eagerness to learn and my desire for a life I could call my own - these were things I would take with me. They were part of me the way my blood, my breath, my bones were”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

“Nothing can resist a person who is
nonresistant... When you overcome
negative with positive...hate with
love... Evil with good. You've turn a
loss to a win... You have become profound.”
― Val Uchendu

“The universe is incredibly vast and mysterious. It will take hundreds of generations to fathom its workings. Each answer will generate thousands of questions. We are the microbes of the universe looking out from our drop of existence trying to grasp the enormity of what surrounds us.”
― Michael J. Marcel, Sr.

“But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing.”
― Derek Jarman, Modern Nature

“Man is not meant to find hope in anything of this world, but rather to lose hope in all things worldly.”
― Michelle Griep, Man of Shadow and Mist

“I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Life abides between life as if it were an island amidst its own ocean”
― Wasif Ali Wasif, Wasifiyat / واصفیات

“One man's generalisation is another man's succinct yet profound summation of a complex theory or argument.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I honestly think I must be mad - or at the very least, on the boarder of insanity when I look at the choices I have made.”
― Lienner Bankole

“It was the tick marks above my bed, underneath the bunk on top of mine, that got me thinking about when I'd last extended my hand to anyone. Or anyone extended their hand to me.
Someone who lived in the dorm before me had recorded their days at university like a prison sentence, carving into the wooden slats under Jarred's bed, and, one night a week ago, reaching up to run a finger over the tallies, I touched the gnawing in me. I realized it had worked its way around inside, gouging, for a while. It must be a hole I've carried since the start of freshman year. (Though sometimes I wonder if it carried over from years before that.)
Simple tally marks etched with a pocketknife woke me to my hollowness.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“I am learning how love wells up and causes great pain when it has nowhere to go. Like breast milk, it has to have an outlet; it can only be nourishing if it is directed away from its source.”
― Bianca Marais, Hum If You Don't Know the Words

“The whole world is a hungry stomach with teeth.”
― Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

“It makes it sound like the halves are discrete...As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“Understanding is the most profound result of love (wanting to know more about others than you want to teach them)”
― Master Soon, The Decision To Have World Peace

“Profundity and daring attempts at it are what separate our cultural touchstones from the white noise of daily communication.”
― Stewart Stafford

“To profundity and beyond!”
― Liz Luyben, Small Talk Survival

“Era la padronanza di sé che pietrificava e allarmava Pablo più di tutto, perché veniva dalla giovinezza e dalla bellezza, come quella che un tempo aveva conosciuto anche lui, e proprio per questo sapeva che non avrebbe conosciuto mai più.”
― David Leavitt, Shelter in Place

“The world is full of wicked people, we are bound to know some of them.”
― Ashley Weaver, An Act of Villainy

“Each moment is as empty or as full as a mirror.”
― Jonathan Kemp, Twentysix

“I wish the sky were created in a deeper, darker shade of green.”
― Elruin Elmsroot

“Such is hope, such is love.
That lost in darkness, above the dim ever-distant blighted night
HOPE is the BEACON and LOVE is the LIGHT.”
― Brett Barrell, Light Heart of the Dark

“Once our theoretical assurance and our pride in the intelligible is lost, we can try to understand everything, to understand everything for itself. Then we manage to rejoice in the inexpressible, to spend our days in the margins of the comprehensible, and to wallow in the suburbs of the sublime.”
― Emil M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“That’s it!” Charlie said, pausing the audiobook. “I knew there was something in this book I needed to remember. Billy Pilgrim is saying that the most important thing he learned is that it only appears that we’re dead at the time of our death and that all moments—past, present, and future—have always existed. He says that it’s only an illusion ‘that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string.’ What he’s saying is that even though the moments in our lives pass, they still exist and always will.”
Charlie continued, “It reminds me of what Robert Lanza said in Biocentrism—that death is an illusion, and there are an infinite number of ‘now’ moments in a person’s life that are not arranged in a linear fashion. What if those ‘now’ moments are like the still frames of a stop-motion picture—they only appear to be moving because they’re played rapidly in sequence, but the individual frames are inanimate? Then, the individual frames—the ‘now’ moments in someone’s life— are like the individual beads on a string, separated only by the smallest unit of length, the Planck length. If you removed the string, the individual beads—all the ‘now’ moments in a person’s life—would float around the person like bubbles in the air but remain connected to that person through quantum entanglement.”
Chris listened intently.
“If that were the case,” Charlie said, “then one of our bubbles—one of our ‘now’ moments—would be us driving in this car right now, and another bubble would be when you, Isaac, and I were hiking to the teahouse in Canada, and still another bubble would be the moment Isaac died. If you remember, Robert Lanza said that our bodies die at the moment we call death, but our consciousness only moves from one ‘now’ moment to another. What Kurt Vonnegut is saying is similar . . . that a person is in bad shape at the time of death, but he’s perfectly fine in so many other moments. They’re both saying death is not the end— that there are an infinite number of ‘now’ moments in a person’s life.”
“I remember you telling me that Allison said time was different on the other side,” Chris added. “I wonder if our bubbles that surround us, our ‘now’ moments—the past, present, and future—which all exist simultaneously and forever, would explain why mediums can see into the past and future. Those ‘now’ moments would be no further away from us than the present.”
“Good point!” Charlie said. “I didn’t think of that. Apparently, Robert Lanza, Allison, and Kurt Vonnegut are saying similar things, but from very different angles.”
― Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Why are some people’s lives so hard and painful?”
“It goes back to the two-sided coin. The opposite sides are needed to complete the lesson. Some lives seem very difficult, and others seem relatively easy, but both pose different lessons. If a person needs to learn self-respect, they might return and have an abusive relationship with a family member who pushes those boundaries. That situation encourages individuals to stand up for themselves and draw healthy boundaries. But if you come back to learn compassion or empathy, living a life of luxury can cause a person to be complacent, and therefore, they might live their whole life without learning their lesson. An easy life might set a person up for a more challenging lesson than a difficult life. They might get so caught up in their life of luxury that they see no reason for soul searching, and as a result, they never learn their lessons. Imagine an individual driving down the road, seeing a repeating sign—LIFE LESSON . . . LIFE LESSON—but they pay it no mind; they just keep driving! Hopefully, they’ll make a U-turn; otherwise, they’ve missed their exit—their opportunity to learn an important lesson.”
― Charlie Bynar

“Honestly, it has been an extraordinary journey . . . so extraordinary that some people questioned whether the things I told them were the truth. Then again, people often question things they haven’t experienced, because they have no reference point.”
― Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side