Deeper Quotes - Page 12

• He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

  Anais Nin

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Fall

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

  Jack London

  Womb, The Wild Nature

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.11, Oxford Paperbacks

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• What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged? Is it the dark? A fleeting memory of a bedtime story, ghosts and goblins and witches hiding in the shadows? Is it the way the wind picks up just before a storm, the hint of wet in the air that makes you want to scurry home to the safety of your fire? Or is it something deeper, something much more frightening, a monster deep inside that you've glimpsed only in pieces, the vast unknown of your own soul where secrets gather with a terrible power, the dark inside?

  Libba Bray

  Memories, Home, Dark

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.

  Juliet Marillier

  Girl, Tree, Like You

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heir to Sevenwaters”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Prayer, People, Profound

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• Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.

  Janet Evanovich

  Want, Turns

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• You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.

  David Klass

  Writing, Eye, Thinking

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• The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

  Wilkie Collins

  Spiritual, Lying, Light

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1463, Delphi Classics

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• But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

  Ian Mcewan

  Interesting, Comforting, Liberation

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• But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get." I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

  John Green

  Blue, Talking, Somewhere Else

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• Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Lying, Grief, Eye

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• You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303

  Diane Setterfield

  Rain, Loss, Emotional

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• The Problem is never the problem! It is only a symptom of something much deeper.

  Virginia Satir

  Problem, Symptoms

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• She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

  Ann Brashares

  Littles, Made, Irritating

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.876, Delacorte Press

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• Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

  Michael Ende

  Spring, Wish, Never Ending Story

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• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowned.

  Megan Hart

  Taken, Boys, Simple

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• There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely.

  Alain de Botton

  Lonely, Book, Thinking

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• My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sarcasm, Voice, Effort

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.117, Harmony

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• Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Loneliness, Connections

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.269, Penguin

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• She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there

  Julia Gregson

  Swimming, Thinking, Feet

  Julia Gregson (2010). “East of the Sun”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pain, Grief, Sweat

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• People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight--at least as they normally experienced them....Some people lost their individuality in the water, but Riley always felt most herself. Water was supposed to symbolize renewal, she knew, but when Riley swam, pared down, alone, and unreachable--she felt a deeper sense of who she already was.

  Ann Brashares

  Makeup, Hair, Sight

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• Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sight, Profound, Long

  Virginia Woolf (1983). “To the lighthouse: the original holograph draft”, Chatto & Windus

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