“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.”

“I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

“… there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“I feel passionate about things. And I feel things deeply, and that's always the way I've been taught, right from the beginning, that the deeper you feel something the better the acting….. and then it's also the person you're playing. If you're playing someone who's upset or yelling, that's what you gotta do. That's the job.”

Ray Liotta (1954) American actor

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

“Most things disappoint till you look deeper.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding….”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key