Quotes about deep
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“My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took a deep breath and announced: "I want a spiritual teacher.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Teachers, Heart

“Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

America, A Prophecy.
1800s
Source: America: A Prophecy/Europe: A Prophecy: Facsimile Reproductions of Two Illuminated Books

Angels

“Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Love

“Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread, and deep-seated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.”

Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005) American politician

Universe, Country

“I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.

Right up until someone kicked me and said "Gotcha!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Sleep

“It isn't deep," the Eddisian Ambassador said from the other side of the bed. He was leaning over the wound, looking critical and mildly disappointed. Eugenides didn't miss a beat.
"It is… too… deep!" he insisted, outraged.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Disappointment

“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

God, Idea, Universe

“It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.”

Georgette Heyer book April Lady

Source: April Lady

“He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Tattoo

“AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Source: Private Lives an Intimate Comedy in Three Acts

People, Thinking

“There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

Source: Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns

Hate, Soul, Lying, Idea

“Drive down any road,

take a train or an airplane
across the world, leave
your old life behind,

die and be born again~
wherever you arrive
they'll be there first,

glossy and rowdy
and indistinguishable.
The deep muscle of the world.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

Life, World, Training

“One heart fulfills all hearts.
All hearts lead to the same heart.
"Kingdom Hearts"
A place where the mighty hearts lives.
And where darkness is endlessly deep.”

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

Source: Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories, Vol. 1

Heart

“See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Silence

“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Question

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

Peace, Silence

“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.

There is, I think, a fear of love.

There is a fear of love.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Love, Fear, Thinking

“Tell me a story.
In this century, and moment, of mania,
Tell me a story.
Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.
The name of the story will be Time,
But you must not pronounce its name.
Tell me a story of deep delight.”

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic

"Tell me A Story"

Time

“Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.”

James Joyce book Chamber Music

Source: Chamber Music

Love, Sadness, Lovers, Sleep

“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

Pain, Problem, Forgetting

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Life, Art, Spring, Question

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

People, Imagination, Thinking, Waiting

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Books, Reading, Help

“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

Time, Heart

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?”

Emily Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Pain, World, Drink, Memory

“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Secret, Moms, Perfection

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”

Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist

“The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come. And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

Faith, Understanding, Effort, Patience

“Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain, Thinking

“I look at you and you look at me and
deep in our hearts know it

That you weren't much of a muse,
but then I weren't much of a poet”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Heart

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.
Darkness, you know, is relative.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep”

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

General sources Source: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171621 Context: The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Love, Deep, Good Night

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Source: My Life on the Road

Change

“To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Love, Fear, Faith, Revenge

“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

People

“I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?”

Rabih Alameddine (1959) Lebanese-American painter and writer.

Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

Sense, Animals

“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“That's it? That's your big goodbye?" Eve asked.
Claire looked at Eve mystified. "I think I need guy CliffNotes."
"Guys aren't deep enough to need CliffNotes."
"What were you waiting for, flowery poetry?" Shane snorted. "I hugged. I'm done.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Lord of Misrule

Guy, Thinking, Waiting

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”

Alex Shakar (1968) American writer

Source: Luminarium

Happiness, Stupidity, Deep

“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

Source: Something from the Nightside

“Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

“Where shadows dim with shadows mate,
in caverns deep and dark.
Where old books dream of bygone days,
when they were wood and bark…”

Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books

Source: The City of Dreaming Books

Books, Dreams

“You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate."

"Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

Hate, People, Effort, Help

“You live your life as if it's real……. a thousand kisses deep”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Life, Kiss

“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sleep, Tea

“Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.”

Idries Shah book The Sufis

Source: The Sufis

Sea

“Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.”

Andrew Sullivan (1963) Journalist, writer, blogger

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Past

“I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)

World, Soul

“Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable… The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.”

Marie Howe (1950) American writer

Silence

“And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Reality, Sleep

“That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down… I still believe it was.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

Way

“But he can also be incredibly sweet. And I know that, deep down, I mean the world to him." "Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Love, World

“one pierced moment whiter than the rest

-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Lie, Sleep

“He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.”

Carl Sagan book Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

Way, Universe

“Being
infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you
always were, deep down inside.”

Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Grass

“To have some deep feeling about Buddhism is not the point; we just do what we should do, like eating supper and going to bed. This is Buddhism.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Feeling

“It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

"Trudy"
Unsourced variants: I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep inner need to complain.
Source: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

“It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Effort

“Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Flowers, Light, Deep, Beauty

“The problem is that we humans are deep conformists.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Problem

“Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.”

Janet Evanovich Twelve Sharp

Source: Twelve Sharp

“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Home, Light, Water, Parting

“There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

Source: A Ring of Endless Light

God

“She had changed him. The ice was in his eyes and in his heart, like he had predicted with that song, but now they were deep embedded there, all the pain of the world. Not pain to make you feel for somebody else but pain to make you stop feeling.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Source: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold

Pain, World, Feeling, Change

“Some people are destined to be deep thinkers. I am not one of those people.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer

People

“I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

“… The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground… they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us…”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Heart

“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Silence, Hurt

“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to re-live, certain kinds of connections that are so deep that when broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

Death, Feeling

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

“Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.”

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

Source: Summer at Willow Lake

Heart, Hurt

“Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)

"The Old Manse": The Author Makes the Reader Acquainted with His Abode http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/tom.html from Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)

Love, Heart

“It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

Source: About a Boy

Life, World, Christmas

“Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.”
If only she knew.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Feeling

“…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

Love

“Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin)
Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Death

“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Music, Memory

“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow

Source: Ender's Shadow

Love, Hunger, Family, Food

“Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.”

Donald A. Norman book The Design of Everyday Things

Source: The Design of Everyday Things

Communication, Understanding, Personality

“Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains”

Stephen R. Donaldson (1947) Novelist

Source: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever

Life, World, Sea

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Life, Joy, Deep

“Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Bumped

Faith, Soul, Sense

“Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.”

Borís Pasternak book Doctor Zhivago

Source: Doctor Zhivago

Love, Goodbye

“This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

People, Thinking, Heart, Personality

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Pain

“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Pain

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Variant: That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn't necessarily perverse.
Source: Infinite Jest (1996)

Secret, Way