Top 100 Deeper Than Quotes
#1. But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#2. I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with humility, is always deeper and more accurate than what the author thought he had in mind.
Ciaran Carson
#3. Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.
Herman Melville
#4. It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?
Hilary Swank
#5. ... there is an inherent rationality to life that makes it intelligible at a much deeper level than functional utility ...
Brian Goodwin
#6. This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that.
Eckhart Tolle
#7. Touch speaks to us on levels, so much deeper than the intellect can comprehend, going to the root of us, to levels of comprehension we can't ignore.
Elliot Mabeuse
#8. Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.
Claes Oldenburg
#9. Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
Edward O. Wilson
#10. I don't believe in revenge. When people are bullies it's because of a deeper-rooted issue - either their family life is tough or they're being bullied by someone bigger than they are.
Khloe Kardashian
#11. But the Tsar of Death and the Tsar of Life greatly feared one another, for Death is surrounded by souls, and is never lonely, and the Tsar of Life had hidden his death away in a place deeper than secrets, and more secret than depth.
Catherynne M Valente
#12. Only philosophy can go deep enough to show that literature goes still deeper than philosophy
Michel Serres
#13. Children leave ... and parents stay behind. Still, some things are deeper than time and distance. And your father will always be your father ... And he will always leave a light on for you.
Fred Savage
#14. When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.
Bernadette Roberts
#15. You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.
Abby Fabiaschi
#16. He was silent a moment. Then he said, "We need you. That's what's important. The rest is titles." Gently, he took my hand in his own. It wasn't a romantic gesture; it was deeper than that. We
Jessica Cluess
#17. Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It's when you can't settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that ... it's a compulsion. It's the difference between lust and love.
Kirsten Hubbard
#18. I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis
#19. You must be a fucking masochist to want anything to do with me."
Her hand slipped beneath my shirt, making my stomach muscles clench on contact, and her eyes locked with mine. "Or maybe I see something deeper than the darkness you wear on the surface.
Keri Lake
#20. I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
David Duchovny
#21. Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
Jesse Jackson
#22. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.
David O. McKay
#23. Don't forget, Alexa. I longed for you before you were even born. There is no one deeper under your spell than me.
Trina M. Lee
#24. There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.
William Howard Taft
#25. We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.
Joe Chung
#26. Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
Kevin Smith
#27. Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.
Elie Wiesel
#28. There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
Charles Spurgeon
#29. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.
Nikki Rowe
#30. A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach ... a multi-sensory perception ... a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you.
Gary Zukav
#31. (...)my love for you is deeper than anything that happened between us. My love for you is the sun, the sky, and the moon. It's the air I breathe. It lives in everything I do. It's better than good. It's everlasting.
Gabby Rivera
#32. I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.
Antoine Predock
#33. Tonight there was something different. Something both deeper and shallower than friendship. Familiarity, perhaps, the sudden realisation that we lived our sealed-up little lives in closeness to each other. That we had something to share and something to lose. Something to protect together.
Alexis Hall
#34. No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He
Jack Higgins
#35. The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones.
Stephen King
#36. It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them is like a speck of glass working itself deeper into your flesh.
Michael Marshall Smith
#37. I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
Joss Whedon
#39. She said softly, "You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live."
He didn't have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss.
So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night.
Sarah J. Maas
#40. There is a part of you that is Love itself, and that is what we must fall into. It is already there. Once you move your identity to that level of deep inner contentment, you will realize you are drawing upon a Life that is much larger than your own and from a deeper abundance.
Richard Rohr
#41. Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.
G.K. Chesterton
#42. There is something special about baseball that goes far deeper than being a game. It is the father-son relationship that is built, the life lessons that are taught in the process of playing a game and the ability to overcome not succeeding all of the time and still considering yourself a success.
JohnA Passaro
#43. Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter ... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven , just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.
David Bohm
#44. Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.
Michael Hersch
#45. Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
Franz Kafka
#46. The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.
Ralph Gibson
#47. These are the moments I fall deeper in love with him. When neither of us says anything, and we just ... stare. There's an understanding there that goes much deeper than words ever could. A connection so real I can't speak, because words could never say the things I feel.
Amanda Grace
#48. Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.
Bruce Hoffman
#49. There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. She wanted to tell him that she understood him now, in a way she'd never understood anyone before. Because she was with him. It wasn't even like being in the web; it was much closer than that, much deeper. He'd torn down all the barriers and put his soul into her hands.
L.J.Smith
#52. Thor might be god of strength and war, Odin of wisdom, but he sometimes wondered if it wasn't Loki, the trickster god, who stood behind what unfolded. A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom. And hadn't the world proved to be a bitter joke?
Mark Lawrence
#53. As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.
H.D. Gordon
#54. Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.
Michel Houellebecq
#55. I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand.
Robin Hobb
#56. What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other ... that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.
Stephen Covey
#57. The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?
Galileo Galilei
#58. Great love is always a discovery, a revelation, a wonderful surprise, a falling into "something" much bigger and deeper that is literally beyond us and larger than us.
Richard Rohr
#59. I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.
Evelyn Rodriguez
#60. Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Henri Nouwen
#61. Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.
Roger Sessions
#62. The currents of life run deeper than thought.
Marty Rubin
#63. You are the finest thing I've ever touched. I want to be careful with you.
Hunter, Deeper Than Midnight, Lara Adrian
Lara Adrian
#64. Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush.
I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
Sophie Kinsella
#65. There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.
Horace Mann
#66. The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.
Michael Jackson
#67. Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
Klaus Schwab
#68. Now I know that here is something higher than heaven and deeper than ocean and stranger than life and death and time. I know now what I did not know before.
Kahlil Gibran
#69. We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.
Lil B
#70. All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.
Chris Milk
#71. There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists ...
Derrick Jensen
#72. Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#73. My mind is desperately trying to formulate the words to let him know, to show him that my feelings run so much deeper than what those three little words can describe. I need to make him feel the way he's just made me feel, and 'I love you' just doesn't seem adequate anymore.
Elle Brooks
#74. Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Richard King
#75. I have to write form a place deeper than just the feelings in my soul.
Kendra J. Williams
#76. When it comes to affairs of the heart, you need to look deeper than the plastic-coated shell
Daisy James
#77. What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
S.J. Rozan
#78. Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband.
Lisa See
#80. I'm not to blame, Ramborg, if a man's heart is created in such a fashion that whatever is inscribed on it when it's young and fresh is carved deeper than all the runes that are later etched.
Sigrid Undset
#82. When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.
Michael Connelly
#83. Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp.
Robert Bloch
#84. You are one with your skis and nature. This is something that develops not only the body but the soul as well, and it has a deeper meaning for a people than most of us perceive.
Fridtjof Nansen
#85. More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. The idea that at each successive moment he was deeper into the Sahara than he had been the moment before, that he was leaving behind all familiar things, this constant consideration kept him in a state of pleasurable agitation.
Paul Bowles
#87. His tone is mild, but there is, and always has been, something a little deeper and more resonant about his voice. It has a slightly different timbre than more voices. Its the kind of thing you forget until you hear it again and remember. Oh yes, His voice has music.
Ally Condie
#88. Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.
Robert Kennedy
#89. Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
Konstantin Stanislavski
#90. I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries.
Eric Kandel
#91. These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they're circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.
Tania James
#92. If the parent represses the girl's anger not just once but over and over again, a deeper injury occurs: the girl will eventually dismantle her anger response. Ultimately, it's safer for her to cut off a part of her being than to battle the person on whom her life depends.
Patricia Love
#93. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Bertrand Russell
#94. For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
Warren De La Rue
#95. 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
#96. True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.
Helen Rowland
#97. Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.
Natasha Pulley
#98. Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.
William Poundstone
#99. When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#100. The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.
Ronald Reagan
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