Deep Quotes - page 2

Deep experience is never peaceful. (Henry James)
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. View quote
Washington Irving
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. View quote
William S. Burroughs
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. View quote
Albert Finney
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. View quote
Barbara Walters
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. View quote
Alan Paton
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. (Carl Sagan)
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. View quote
Richard Dawkins
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. View quote
Ellen Goodman
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. View quote
Mike Tyson
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. View quote
Peter Zumthor
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)
At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
Graham Greene
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. View quote
Felix Frankfurter