“The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.” IfsWayLightEventsTheoryProfoundWoundsRuinsPlatesCatastrophe Author:Simon Winchester
“Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.” ThinkingWellsFunEventsPaintingMereProfoundPainterFulfilling Author:Steven Whitney
“In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.” WorldGivingSelfPlayPainBeautifulFormLeftForceResultsGriefEventsFieldsColdDramaToughProfoundPassionateTrackClarityTelling The TruthGravityGlimpseElegantVividExaminationPartingElementalsIndelibleUnderstatedForce FieldsCenter Of Gravity Author:Chase Twichell
“Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'” WayShouldLooksBodyBlackResultsOpinionSadnessConditionsEventsResponsibleProfoundReasoningStomachUnhealthyProfound Sadness Author:Emile Chartier
“The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.” HumansIdeasRealMomentsFallCausesProcessMankindEffectsEventsTransformationProfoundCriticalInvisibleMemorableVisibleEmpiresCivilisationRoman EmpireEpochHuman ThoughtUpheavalModificationArabianCritical Moments Author:Gustave Le Bon
“The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.” MayFactsDifferencesEventsStandardsProfoundVersionsSubtleStarks Author:William Finnegan