I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it. " She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its. . . It deals with it!
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us
A man's profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.
I am not a serious person. I don't claim any profundity for any of my writing.
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
