“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
Deep Quotes
Dive into the profound with deep quotes that challenge your thinking and stir your soul. These words invite contemplation and reveal truths hiding beneath the surface.
773 quotes · Page 1 of 33
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.”
“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, but a quest for meaning.”
“Connection is why we're here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
Attribution note: Source disputed or unverified.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
About deep quotes
Deep quotes are the ones you have to sit with. They ask questions more often than they answer them: what it means to be free, why we suffer, what we owe each other. Albert Camus called man “the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” Toni Morrison observed that “definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” Socrates suggested that death might be the greatest good, not the greatest evil.
Many of these come from writers who faced the hardest experiences directly: Viktor Frankl on suffering, C.S. Lewis on grief in A Grief Observed, Nelson Mandela on what freedom really requires. Read slowly. If one of these stays with you, open the quote page to see its source and more from the same author.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a deep quote about life and meaning?
- Albert Camus: “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” (“Return to Tipasa”, 1952). It is often misattributed to Nietzsche.
- Who said “The unexamined life is not worth living”?
- Socrates, at his trial in 399 BC, as recorded by Plato in the Apology (38a). It is sometimes wrongly credited to Aristotle.
- What did C.S. Lewis write about grief?
- A Grief Observed (1961), written after the death of his wife, opens: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
Explore more categories
Inspirational QuotesMotivational QuotesLove QuotesFunny QuotesHalloween QuotesLife QuotesFriendship QuotesSuccess QuotesHappiness QuotesMental Health QuotesSelf-Love QuotesHealing QuotesGrief & Loss QuotesAnxiety QuotesGratitude QuotesWisdom QuotesStoic QuotesCourage QuotesResilience QuotesLeadership QuotesCybersecurity QuotesAccounting QuotesFinance QuotesComputer Science QuotesFitness QuotesChange QuotesDreams QuotesFamily QuotesWork QuotesCreativity QuotesShort QuotesBirthday QuotesGraduation Quotes