#profound

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#thoughts #truth #beauty

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#affected #ants #humans #i #i think

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested before by science in the whole history of the human race. ↗

— Francis William Aston

#before #conclusion #fact #future #greater

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#late #late night #night #profound #sexism

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#day #discipline #emotion #every #every day

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. ↗

— Craig Thompson

#profound #inspirational

GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain... ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#inspirational #profound #quest #simple #inspirational

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#profound #prophetic #inspirational

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#profound #life

Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are - my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks - we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#profound #art