Top 100 Deeper Than Quotes
#2. Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.
E.F. Schumacher
#4. But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.
John Knowles
#5. Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
William James
#6. When the love runs deeper than the pain, then you will see again."
-It Is You
Noah Thomas Simmons
#7. But as Max tugged him out the door a different feeling stole over him, something strange, behind the regret, deeper than the mourning. It wasn't until much later that he was able to identify it.
Excitment.
A. Ashley Straker
#8. To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
Huey Newton
#9. We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and much deeper than you might realize.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Consciousness is the highest word you will ever utter. There is nothing higher or deeper than consciousness.
Michael A. Singer
#11. Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.
Stephen Kinzer
#12. Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.
Toni Morrison
#13. This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.
Jan Smuts
#14. Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature
which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.
George Henry Lewes
#17. Black metal seemed way deeper than anything else, and I kind of got addicted to it.
Mick Barr
#18. Now I understand the depth of the sadness." William turned and looked at her. "In the painting? Adele's eyes look as though they go deeper than the back of the canvas. It's because of what she saw, because of all the people who walked by her and she was powerless to stop it.
Kristy Cambron
#19. Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone.
Tyra Banks
#20. Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
William Chapman
#21. The heart in us is deeper than any emotion or psychological issue.
Krishna Das
#22. Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.
John Campbell Shairp
#23. Let's try and create scenes that are about something ... About something deeper than this ashtray.
Martin De Maat
#24. . . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.
J. Kowallis
#25. When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane
John De Ruiter
#26. I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
Lionel Blue
#27. A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where all the good stories are swimming around waiting to be rescued from the soul."
Kathleen M. Rodgers ~ 1998
Kathleen M. Rodgers
#28. I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.
Laurel Nakadate
#30. There must still be some last invisible unbroken strand connecting them, something deeper than mourning. The wound had healed but the scar wouldn't fade, not quite.
Lev Grossman
#31. Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.
Jennifer Donnelly
#32. Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#33. Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than her.
Waseem Latif
#34. A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton
#35. When our identity is found in Christ, we are free to be honest (James 5:16). If you have faith in Christ, your new identity is secure and robust. Your new identity in Christ is deeper than any of your wounds, sins, suffering, trials, and failures.
Anonymous
#36. Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
D.H. Lawrence
#37. Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.
John De Ruiter
#38. I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.
Iggy Pop
#39. Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#40. Whether black or white, male or female, active or reserve, gay, bisexual, or straight, we are all Marines. What we share in common goes deeper than any superficial differences.
S.J.D. Peterson
#41. Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us seeks. How we honor each other's search will tell the tale of the next millennium.
Jeffrey Klein
#42. That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. How could I relax when I had to welcome Christian into my home, the one who had wounded me deeper than anyone, the one who haunted my days and held me in my dreams?
A.L. Jackson
#44. Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.
Emil M. Cioran
#45. She was as beautiful as the Madonna statue they kept in the church. Her beauty went so much deeper than her face or body; it was a manifestation of her innocence, the sweetness she showed everyone, the steadfast loyalty that she gave to others even though it had never been given to her.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#46. Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world.
They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents.
Heather Crews
#47. Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain.
Cathryn Alpert
#48. I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.
Don Everly
#49. Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in ... at least for 10 minutes.
Krishna Das
#51. Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead.
Austin Kleon
#53. Hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.
Anthony Marra
#54. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
#55. An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It's a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values.
Toni Sorenson
#56. All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
Roger Ebert
#57. Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
Raymond Loewy
#58. 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
#59. The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.
James MacDonald
#60. Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.
Mary McLeod Bethune
#62. Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
Erwin McManus
#63. I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss
Kami Garcia
#64. Most people think yoga is simply a form of exercise, but as you know, it's much deeper than that. It's about mindfulness, about focus. It helps us see things as they truly are.
Tracy Weber
#65. He gives us more than we request by going deeper than we ask. He wants not only your whole heart; he wants your heart whole.
Max Lucado
#66. The most transient and trivial of infatuations lack any real cause, and that's even truer of feelings that go far deeper, infinitely deeper than that.
Javier Marias
#67. Actions can speak louder than words but words can sometimes cut deeper than a sword if they come from the right people in our lives.
Christina Estabrook
#68. You are loved deeper than any ocean. Let your mind swim through it's depth because I will never let you drown.
Shannon L. Alder
#72. I had kept opaque
Down deeper than the canyons undersea
The sullen spectrum of a buried lake
Nobody saw; not seen even by me ...
Allen Tate
#74. I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite ... When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
Jonathan Edwards
#75. The sense of belonging together had been deeper than love.
Olivia Manning
#76. The temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and mine is deeper than the ocean, wider than the universe.
Rick Yancey
#77. Your observations aren't always correct. Sometimes, things go deeper than what you see on the surface.
Jamie McGuire
#78. I'm confused. Really confused. And it's a lot deeper than you think. Deeper ... darker ... colder. But tell me something. How could you have slept with me that time? How could you have done such a thing? Why didn't you just leave me alone?
Haruki Murakami
#80. Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.
W. H. Auden
#81. It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.
Melanie Shankle
#82. My civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#83. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time. The
Eckhart Tolle
#84. I love you, Dani Mega O'Malley," Dancer said against my ear as he moved inside me. "More than the world is big. Deeper than the sky is blue. Truer than the universe is vast. I love you more eternal than pi.
Karen Marie Moning
#85. Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
Henry Moore
#86. In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.
Garey Gordon
#87. The love one feels for his significant is bigger than any ocean, deeper than any well, more powerful than any storm.
Shelly Crane
#88. Reverend Abdu bore his several identities, and all their contradictions, in a single skin. It wasn't relativism: his convictions went deeper than that... Such labels seemed ultimately unimportant to him because he did not belong to himself, or to this world, at all; he belonged to God.
Eliza Griswold
#89. The lesson: The power of your story isn't just a way to connect to your ultimate consumer but is also a means of making you attractive to potential partners who want to attach themselves to something deeper than buying and selling.
Blake Mycoskie
#90. For the present when backed by the past is a thousand times deeper than the present when it presses so close that you can feel nothing else
Olivia Laing
#91. Everything we do together is heightened because I know you feel things deeper than the average man. You feel things to your core. Way past your heart. You feel with your soul.
Frankie Love
#92. We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
Thomas Mann
#93. The terrors ingrained in a child went deeper than any anxiety acquired as an adult. The fear bred itself right into growing bones, mellowed into hatred, and became part of the DNA. In my case, it laced the edges of every cell, like heroin and equally addictive. The
Anne McAneny
#94. News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#95. There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#96. But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren't for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all.
I told on them.
I was jealous.
God forgive me, for I have sinned.
Lauren Oliver
#97. You pretend to be cold, but you love deeper than anyone I've ever seen. I've never heard of a shifter suppressing their wolf, yet you released her when you needed strength to defend your mom. When you learn to harness your wolf and combine it with your love and loyalty, you're a mate I'd die for.
A.P. Jensen
#98. There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.
Gregory David Roberts
#99. The roots of a tree stretch deeper than you think...No matter how far away you are when you bloom, you are always tied to your roots.
Lindsay Eagar
#100. Surrender all thought, emotion, and circumstance to that which is bigger and deeper.
Surrender your identity. Surrender your suffering to that which is closer than identity,
deeper than suffering. Do you discover victory or defeat in this surrender?
Gangaji
