Deeper Quotes - Page 14

• You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers - you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.

  Anais Nin

  Clever, Thinking, Ideas

  "Henry and June". Book by Anais Nin, 1986.

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• She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. She hardly knew what she had been seeking, or why the failure to find it had so blotted the light from her sky: she was only aware of a vague sense of failure, of an inner isolation deeper than the loneliness about her.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Sky, Light

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.495, Delphi Classics

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• ...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

  Dan Brown

  Memories, Mind, Burning

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.875, Random House

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• There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

  David Levithan

  Running, Water, Childhood

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.14, Egmont UK

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• And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally." Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. "Tradition?" "It's a new tradition," Amber shot back. "Clearly the deeper meaning of the word has escaped you.

  Darynda Jones

  Doubt, Amber, Brooklyn

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• I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Passion, Thinking, Roots

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• When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wall, Positive Thinking

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• It is not desire. Instead it is something deeper. I don't want to be with him constantly and forever. I want to be with him for the moment, and I want the moments to go on forever.

  David Levithan

  Forever, Desire, Goes On

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• People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Tragedy, Virtue

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.214, Random House

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• What we had went so much deeper than a kiss. When we were together, she turned me completely inside out. It didn't matter if we were dead or alive. We could never be kept apart. There were some things more powerful than worlds or universes. She was my world, as much as I was hers. What we had, we knew. The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. Anybody who's ever been in love can tell you that.

  Kami Garcia

  Powerful, Kissing, Together

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• What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

  Erlend Loe

  Men, Together, Months

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• The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Self, Shoes, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

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• The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Heart, Sadness

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• The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (2012). “Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22

  Brennan Manning

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

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• I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Remembered

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• Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Self, Roots

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• It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Hurt, School, Character

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• Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

  Michka Assayas

  Thinking, Passionate, Kind

  Michka Assayas (2006). “Bono”, p.94, Penguin

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• I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

  Steven Erikson

  Memories, Love You, Past

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• How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Awakening

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wrinkles, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.355

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• How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Crush, Pain, Powerful

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• I feel like I've woken up with suddenly more facial hair and a deeper voice.

  Harry Styles

  Hair, Voice, Feels

  Twitter post from Feb 1, 2012

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• Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Sports, Heart

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