Quotes about deep
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Robert A. Heinlein photo
Robert Penn Warren photo

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
Homér photo
Douglas Coupland photo
Dalton Trumbo photo
Herman Melville photo

“The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.”

Richard J. Foster (1942) American Quaker theologian

Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Naomi Shihab Nye photo
Spencer W. Kimball photo
Myla Goldberg photo
David Foster Wallace photo
John Milton photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Jennifer Egan photo
John Steinbeck photo

“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

Source: Tortilla Flat

Robin Hobb photo
Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Jean Paul Sartre photo

“[W]e only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

Miscellaneous

Yann Martel photo

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

Variant: Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Source: Life of Pi

Suzanne Collins photo
Haruki Murakami photo
John Milton photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Philip Larkin photo
Maya Angelou photo
Jim Butcher photo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo
Nora Roberts photo

“Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: The MacKade Brothers: Devin and Shane

Jodi Picoult photo

“Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Variant: Because sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.
Source: Lover Avenged

Jim Davis photo

“Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield”

Jim Davis (1945) American cartoonist and creator of Garfield
Albert Einstein photo
Shane Claiborne photo
Jonathan Franzen photo
Francis Bacon photo

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Source: The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon

Haruki Murakami photo
Sarah Vowell photo

“Behind every bad law, a deep fear.”

Source: The Wordy Shipmates

Nicholas Sparks photo
Ingmar Bergman photo
Frederick Buechner photo
Roger Ebert photo
Kamila Shamsie photo
Maya Angelou photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Henry James photo
Karen Marie Moning photo
Richelle Mead photo
William Gibson photo

“I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.”

William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre

"Since 1948" (6 November 2002) http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/source/source.asp
Context: I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write.
And have been, ever since.
Context: In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write.
And have been, ever since.

Mitch Albom photo

“… the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Guy De Maupassant photo
Khaled Hosseini photo
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar photo
Robert A. Heinlein photo
Carson McCullers photo

“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Jack London photo
George Gordon Byron photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Judy Blume photo
Barbara Kingsolver photo
Julia Quinn photo
Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie photo

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

Source: White: The Great Pursuit

Roald Dahl photo
Edward Bulwer-Lytton photo
Frank Herbert photo
William James photo
Cornelia Funke photo
Henry David Thoreau photo

“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Cassandra Clare photo
Norman Vincent Peale photo
John Steinbeck photo