Too Deep Quotes

• To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Blow

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Self Improvement

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• How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hurt, Taken, Heart

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Maps, Treasure

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

  Jon Krakauer

  People, World, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 24, 2016

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• I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Cold Hearted, Serious, Paradox

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• This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

  Ally Condie

  Honesty, Cutting, Balance

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin

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• I don't care if I'm in too deep.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Care, Ifs, I Don't Care

  Song: The Right Kind Of Wrong

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• Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love Is, Framework, Understood

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

  Lalita Tademy

  Pain, Reaching, Figures

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• Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Dream, Attitude, Fire

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

  Lester Holt

  Mustache, Shaving, Chance

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• Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no reason for doubt-filled pessimism, for the Wihinei of the Aryo-Germanics is too deep - even if unconscious and latent - rooted in every Aryo-Germanic soul and it awaits onl the call to awaken which will and must catch fire in order to instill the flame of inspiration in the Aryo-Germanic sensibility.

  Guido von List

  Inspiration, Twilight, Dark

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• I see too deep and too much.

  Henri Barbusse

  Too Much

  "The Inferno". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1917.

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• In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

  Randy Travis

  Letting Go, Dark, Reality

  Song: The Hole

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• Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

  Phil Ochs

  Forgiveness, Evil, Done

  Song: We Seek No Wider War

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• Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Lying, True Life, Biographies

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.243

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Heart

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Lying, Incentives, Action

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• In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

  Jack Valenti

  Struggle, Political, Daggers

  "What Jack Valenti Taught Us All" by Matt Gerson, www.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2007.

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• Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

  Edie Brickell

  Water, Shallow, Choke

  "Song: 'What I Am'". 1988.

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• Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

  Walter Scott

  Horse, Land, Spurs

  Sir Walter Scott “Works”

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• Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come. When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance. There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Ocean, Teaching

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• If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

  William John Locke

  Dream, Blood, Tears

  William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

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• Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fate, Hawks, Resentment

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