Deeper Quotes
1478 Deeper quotes by 1054 unique authors
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Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
— Carl Jung
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We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentments and mortality. We wrongly believe that our…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of…
— Elie Wiesel
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And you still love Marc?" "More than I can even explain. He's my rock—strong and steady, and ready for anything. He knows what I need…
— Rachel Vincent
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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the…
— David Lynch
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Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep…
— David Clement-Davies
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Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to…
— Mark Epstein
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George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
— John Steinbeck
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I pu my finger to her lips. "You have to hush a minute so that I can tell you something." "What?" she says, bites my…
— Brad Barkley
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It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it…
— Simone Elkeles
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Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters, into the very…
— Anne Rice
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Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your…
— Rajneesh
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I want deeper connections with the people around me. I need to reach out more. Because not everyone leaves. Sometimes if you reach out, the…
— Susane Colasanti
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Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.
— Michel Houellebecq
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Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed…
— Lauren Oliver
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Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault…
— John Green
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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of…
— Ben Okri
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A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.
— Robert Jordan
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It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you…
— Michael Marshall Smith
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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
— Dante Alighieri
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Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like…
— Rajneesh
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By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock…
— Albert Hofmann
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any…
— Lev Grossman
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