Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.
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.
Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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.
The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
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
I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this "truth," a most welcome veil over a pudendum--and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
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.
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
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!
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
You can't learn pathos or profundity.