Deeper Quotes - Page 9

• The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Good Night, God, Stars

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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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• It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Suicide, Hair

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

  Radhanath Swami

  Heart, Humility, Sacrifice

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• Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

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• Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Friendship, Men, Soul

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• Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Two Towers, Devices

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.409, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

  e. e. cummings

  Country, Rain, Eye

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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• Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

  E. O. Wilson

  Culture, Human Nature, Humans

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• My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

  Henry James

  Jealous, Ideas, Doubt

  "Pictures and Other Passages from Henry James".

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• Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

  Graham Greene

  Looks, Disappoint

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

  Stanley Kunitz

  Heart, Dark, Break

  Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

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• Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mom, Drinking, Book

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Pain, Mean, Forever

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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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• 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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• Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Justice, Jokes

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Coming Through Slaughter”, p.86, A&C Black

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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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• But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

  Shannon Hale

  Running, Stars, Dark

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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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• To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Long, Limits

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