Deep Down Quotes - Page 3

• Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

  Gayle Forman

  Want, Propositions, Knows

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 20, 2014

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• Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Truth, Ambition

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.210, Bantam

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• It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

  Tori Spelling

  Forgiveness, Giving Up, Mistake

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• Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fear

  Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.82, Seven Stories Press

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• Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

  David Levithan

  Long, People, Esoteric

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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

  Vampire

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• All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ideas, Soul, Age

  James Russell Lowell, “An Incident In A Railroad Car”

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• It doesn't really matter so much what the words are I don't think - maybe if you're a real expert in prayer you could do it through silence. But I think sometimes it helps to express it and to know you're expressing it to God. Paul talked about praying with your spirit and that's basically what it is, it's expressing what you feel deep down in a language which God gives you.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Prayer, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that is right. Don't be unconscious because that is wrong. And then whatsoever you do in consciousness is right. But people are living in unconsciousness. And let me tell you: in unconsciousness you may think you are doing something right, but it can't be right. Out of unconsciousness, virtue cannot flower; it may appear virtuous but it can't be. Deep down it will still be something wrong. If you are unconscious and you give money to a poor man, watch: your ego is strengthened. This is sin.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Men, Thinking

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• Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Suicidal, Next Day

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Powerful, Down And, Sometimes

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.

  Julia Quinn

  Forever, Panic, Realizing

  Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, Connie Brockway (2012). “The Lady Most Likely: A Novel in Three Parts”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours.

  Elizabeth O'Conner

  Secret, Vision, Digging

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• It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

  Stuart Wilde

  Money, Real, Intelligent

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• He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.

  Christine Feehan

  Would Be, Arrogant, Want

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.1054, Penguin

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• For a moment I can't help thinking how decent he is - that there's some hope for him beyond the obnoxious image he displays. Maybe deep down he is a sensitive guy, who sees us as real people with real issues. I want to say something nice. Some kind of thanks. I stand there, rehearsing it in my mind. "Oh my God," he says, "did you see that girl's tits?" Maybe not today.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Real, Nice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Selfish, Party, Men

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

  Camille Paglia

  Dance, Kings, Stars

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• The force and the strength for peace will come from people. And that will happen when people start to realize that all the diversity and differences we see of nationalities, of religions, of cultures, of languages, are all beautiful diversities, for they are only on the surface. And deep down we share the same humanity, the global humanity.

  Satish Kumar

  Strength, Beautiful, Differences

  "Walking The World For Peace". Interview with Robert Gilman, www.context.org. 1987.

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• If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.

  Greg Behrendt

  Moving On, Breakup, Pain

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.71, Harmony

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• Value people because of who they were deep down, not because of their names or their parents’ clout.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Names, People, Parent

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• ... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Frightened

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death.

  Rajneesh

  Anxiety, Competition, Desire

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• The word `ecstasy` is beautiful; it simply means `standing out.` Out of what? Standing out of your ego, your personality, your mind; getting out of the whole structure in which you have lived - not only lived but with which you have become identified. Standing out of all this, just a pure witness, a watcher on the hills - and everything is left deep down in the valley.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Personality

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