# Most Genuinely Profound Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963 "2014-06-29T21:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/81 "2014-08-14T11:15:49Z")
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again” ― Stephen Grellet (probably attributed) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/82 "2014-08-14T13:51:56Z")
“He realized the futility of living and still believed in living life to the fullest”–Kinky Friedman ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/83 "2014-08-14T17:02:32Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Every frigging day the old bugger would get up before dawn and go for a jog, followed by an ocean swim (this is in Melbourne) and umpteen hundred pushups and situps. Died recently in his 80’s from brain cancer as a secondary from melanoma. My building backs up onto an old folk’s home. Even if exercise doesn’t prolong your life, it’s a huge quality of life upgrade. Huge. Listen to me: HUGE. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/84 "2014-08-14T17:15:50Z")
“Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”-Harlan Ellison “Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks” -Harlan Ellison, again. and my signature: ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/85 "2014-08-14T17:32:20Z")
“I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.” — Andrew, Bicentennial Man Nanu Nanu, Mr. Williams _ear tug_ ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/86 "2014-08-14T22:25:10Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5 “Don’t believe the hype.” Public Enemy ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/87 "2014-08-14T22:27:24Z")
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” Nietzsche ---
**Author:** ![all1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@all1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/all1966)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/88 "2014-08-14T22:59:37Z")
“If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still…” ― Isobelle Carmody, Night Gate ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/89 "2014-08-15T01:26:34Z")
“Give me where to stand and a long enough lever, and I will move the Earth.” – Archimedes “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” – Voltaire ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/90 "2014-08-15T22:12:09Z")
Every once in a while, I save a line from my recreational reading: “Buried truths rush along quietly in some hidden place.” — Rachel Kushner “Nothing is worth fighting for, because fighting only prolongs the cycle of aggression and retaliation.” –J. M. Coetzee I love this beautiful verse from a song by a French Canadian singer: Moi, j’veux dessiner les oiseaux Qui viennent d’un pays Que tu connais même pas (I just want to draw birds who come from a country that you don’t even know.) – Marie-Jo Therio (“Cafe Robinson”) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/91 "2014-08-16T00:24:30Z")
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: _“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”_ 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39 ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/92 "2014-08-16T11:11:05Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > _Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money._ > > -George Carlin I love that quote. I have a similar one (mine) that I tell my kids: “Never worship a god who’s broke. If he can create the world, he won’t be asking for handouts.” And back to the profound: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” -Sun Tzu ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/93 "2014-08-16T12:42:10Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > “Never worship a god who’s broke. If he can create the world, he won’t be asking for handouts.” or, from an old country song about 30 years ago: “I see them TV preachers with a suit and a tie and a vest, They ask you to send your money to the Lord But then they give you their own address.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Lady\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Grey)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/94 "2014-08-16T13:34:35Z")
“The universe is flux, life is opinion.” Or in different translation (from the original Greek): “The universe is change, life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/95 "2014-08-16T19:11:20Z")
“The Theme is the Quest” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/96 "2014-08-16T19:39:57Z")
“And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day it was as one dead”. ---
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/97 "2014-08-17T00:14:38Z")
“No wind favors him who has no destined port.” Michel de Montaigne ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/98 "2014-08-17T00:28:56Z")
Freedom will come not when the slaves can no longer bear their burden but when the masters can no longer bear their shame. (I wrote that one. It’s pseudoprofound, admittedly, but it would work great in one of those movies where they wear togas and wristwatches) ---
**Author:** ![babygoat666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@babygoat666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/babygoat666)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/99 "2014-08-17T03:21:06Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > The most terrifying sentence ever uttered in the English language is, “Hello! I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” > > - Ronald Reagan Here’s a quote from Reagan that is actually profound: “There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons." ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963/100 "2014-08-18T12:37:30Z")
If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die. -Stephen King [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-genuinely-profound-quotes/691963.md?page=6)