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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• 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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• 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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• If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Together, Stitches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.27, Scholastic UK

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• The feelings cut too deep for them to be put on display.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cutting, Feelings, Display

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.289, St. Martin's Press

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• The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.129, Macmillan

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• How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

  Jodi Thomas

  Tears, Bears, Dies

  Jodi Thomas (1999). “To Kiss a Texan”, p.178, Penguin

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• I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

  Grace Jones

  Song, Strong, Men

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• One time Allie and I skipped school and went to see this foreign film called Los Diablos, where these villagers found a glowing blue ball and peeled pieces off of it to see what was inside. Only the ball was really radioactive, and they all died from the poison. I think that’s what happens when you look too deep inside for the truth. The poison comes out, and you die, even though you have beautiful glowing pieces of blue truth in your fingers.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

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• So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Rocks, Foundation, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.471, Hachette UK

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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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• I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.

  Kalup Linzy

  Mistake, Character, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

  Kelly Slater

  Surfing, Sound, Assuming

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• The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.

  Jennifer Egan

  Dark, Blue, Sky

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.102, Anchor

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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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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Blood, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.

  William Shakespeare

  Doctors, Forgiving, Physicians

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1842). “The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.117

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• One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Childhood, Mind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.43, Penguin

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• But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Karma, Running, Mean

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• Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

  Katherine Paterson

  Real, Silly, Thinking

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Bridge to Terabithia”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Some things go too deep for words.

  Joan Bauer

  Joan Bauer (1999). “Rules of the road”

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• He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Tree, Red, Violet

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