profound feelings Quotes

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.

And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.

The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care.