Profound Truth Quotes

“That was the second major lie I told that week. It gets easier, in some ways; now I lie without expending any effort. But I think each one has its own weight. One alone may barely register, like a grain of sand in the palm of one's hand. But soon enough there's more than can be held and they start to slip through our grasp if we are not careful.”
― Emma Newman, Planetfall

“Enslavement is still enslavement, no matter how soft the chains.”
― Kelsey Quick, A Violet Fire

“She looked at his face, his lined, well-lived face. You were right. This perfect moment, in her once-desolate bedroom, was John’s belief at its apotheosis. She realized she wouldn’t have believed it before—that, in the most hopelessly constricted of places, you could find the fulfillment to all your dreams of adventure and romance. No, she wouldn’t have believed it. Not twenty years ago, not ten years ago, not a year ago. She had to reach forty-eight years of age to realize the truth and to internalize it. Forty-eight long years of groping in the dark. How silly she felt now and how blessed.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“What is a moment in a day but a grain of sand . . . until that moment means everything in the world?”
― Kate Birkin, The Consequence of Anna

“But I can't pretend I don't know how little the goodwill of even the best surgeon can accomplish against the workings of fate. A man's hands are rooted firmly in the earth, Angela. God, if he exists, is behind our backs.”
― Margaret Mazzantini

“Speaking less and doing more says more.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“Billy, I ask you, what is holding you back? What inhibition have you? What restrains you from Christ and His love? You have been with me for nigh unto three years and in those years you have seen Jesus’ power raise a man from death, cure a woman from sickness, mend the broken, redeem the sinner, and bless the unloved. Tell me, why do you keep running?”
― Grace A. Johnson, Bound and Determined

“I don’t see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.”
― Johnny Rich

“A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.”
― Sokyo Ono, Shinto: The Kami Way

“I was always the youngest person to do things, until I wasn't!”
― Captain Hank Bracker

“The absence of empathy is the embodiment of evil”
― Azeez Adeyinka Lawal

“The Queen sets the tone. What a wonderful beautiful domino effect that her stance on acceptance will have. As the leader of a society she just boldly conveyed that it's okay to accept people where they are.”
― Germany Kent

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

“The dead have no notion of time.”
― Michelle Griep

“She (mom) yelled from upstairs, Those are books that help me to live! Those books are my life!
Get down here! I yelled back. I'm your goddamn life!”
― Miriam Toews , Fight Night

“The story of the world is not the story of coup’s and revolution’s, it is the story of lost keys and burnt coffee and a sleeping child in your arms. History is the untallied sum of a million everyday moments.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“I am empty of everything other than hunger. It is a beast that claws at my insides begging for sustenance. The more it receives, the more it wants, the more it begs. Sure there are times it sits sleeping in my guts, its purrs pulsing low and deep, but it never leaves. The beast is never satisfied.”
― Igraine Gray