37 Profound And Inspiring Quotes

In a world where words wield the power to uplift, motivate, and provoke thought, quotes stand as timeless gems of wisdom. They distill complex emotions and insights into a few lines, offering clarity and inspiration when we need it most. Our curated collection of the top 37 profound and inspiring quotes serves as a testament to the enduring impact of language. Whether you're seeking motivation to conquer challenges, solace in difficult times, or a spark of creativity, these quotes promise to resonate deeply and ignite a fresh perspective. Join us as we explore the eloquence and depth of some of the most impactful words ever spoken.

1. “The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.” - Douglas Adams

2. “It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer

3. “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

4. “And he whose soul is flat -- the skyWill cave in on him by and by.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

5. “If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.” - Mary Shelley

6. “That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.” - Edgar Allan Poe

7. “...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.” - Charles Darwin

8. “Till this moment I never knew myself.” - Jane Austen

9. “There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.” - Victor Hugo

10. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” - Chuck Klosterman

11. “I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.” - Sylvia Plath

12. “No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.” - C.S. Lewis

13. “The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.” - Victor Hugo

14. “And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time ad space without you.” - Tim Winton

15. “To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows.” - Victor Hugo

16. “Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?” - Euripides

17. “You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.” - Deb Caletti

18. “The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.” - Andre Aciman

19. “You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.” - Annie Dillard

20. “All that blooms must fall.” - Marilyn Chin

21. “I rubbed my face with my hands. “Oh, God, what are You getting us into?” Olivia chuckled. “That’s an interesting way to put it. But I think sometimes the Lord puts us into impossible situations—or lets us get into them ourselves—just so He can show His might and power as He pulls us out.” - Anne K. Riley

22. “In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.” - Oscar Wilde

23. “‎"Your heart is in your chest. It supplies the blood to your cells. Even if you don't think about it, your heart is always pumping. The heart is the most important organ in the body. Without it, you will die."'What grade are you teaching these days?' Joel asked. ' Because either this is really sad...or really profound.” - Jordan Castillo Price

24. “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

25. “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.” - Steve Jobs

26. “Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.” - Alice Steinbach

27. “Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.” - Lama Surya Das

28. “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

29. “What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.” - Richard Pryor

30. “Happiness is not about what happens to you, but how you choose to respond to what happens.” - Karen Salmansohn

31. “You too must seek the sun...” - Allen Ginsberg

32. “Do you know how a pearl comes to be?""Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.""Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. "All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures.” - C.L. Wilson

33. “Every journey starts with the first step, and the first step down the Dark path is choosing self over sacrifice.” - C.L. Wilson

34. “Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.” - Hermann Hesse

35. “...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions?” - Dostoyevsky

36. “Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can a man!” - Lao Tzu

37. “The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of their presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look dejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of men all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost everything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of chaos.Ordinary men look bright and intelligent, while I alone seem to be benighted. They look full of discrimination, while I alone am dull and confused. I seem to be carried about as on the sea, drifting as if I had nowhere to rest. All men have their spheres of action, while I alone seem dull and incapable, like a rude borderer.(Thus) I alone am different from other men, but I value the nursing-mother (the Tao).” - Lao Tzu