Deep Down Quotes

• Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

  Eminem

  Funny, Husband, Men

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Giving, Feelings

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  Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

  Joe Paterno

  Life, Uplifting, Running

  "We were..." by Wright Thompson, www.espn.com. November 24, 2011.

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• Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Young

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.193, Bantam

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

  David Foster Wallace

  Bipolar, Secret, Different

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• The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Giving, Bullshit, Trouble

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• Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Desire

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• I know what it’s like to be torn between a love so pure it burns you deep down in a place you didn’t know someone could touch you and between your oath and duties. Between the love of a father you’ve always known and one you know you can depend on forever versus a love that’s new and untested. But you know what I learned? It’s a lot easier to live without my father’s love than it is to live without Phoebe’s. (Urian) (Acheron didn’t speak as Urian left him alone.) That just makes you want to vomit, doesn’t it? (Jaden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Forever, Want

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Devil, Acrimony, Caprice

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• Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Flames, Curiosity, Today

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Light, Joy

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (à courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?

  African Spir

  Selfish, Simple, Justice

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 55), 1937.

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• What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Differences, Wife

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• I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silly, Want, Belief

  Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950), as published in "The Missouri Review", Vol. XVII, No. 3, (p. 137), 1994.

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• Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Average, Voice

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• Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

  Herman Melville

  Memories, Believe, Looks

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.460

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• Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Lying, Men, Law

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• There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Waiting, Truth Is

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Believe, Hysteria, World

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel”, p.94, Penguin

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• I guess it's a bit like not claiming your brother at school. This kind of disowning of the thing that you're most like. You want to be something cool, like Michael Jackson say, with a boom box over your shoulder and wearing leather. But you know deep down you're just a hayseed.

  Ketch Secor

  Brother, School, Over You

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, People, Normal

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.209, Vintage

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• With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

  Tori Spelling

  Hurt, Giving Up, Mistake

  Tori Spelling, Hilary Liftin (2009). “STORI Telling”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.

  Robbie Keane

  Player, Joy, Might

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