Top 150 Deep Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

— Seneca

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2. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

— Rumi

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3. “If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Love Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

4. “Love is the absence of judgment.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

5. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

6. “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Emotion Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

7. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

8. “The root of suffering is attachment.”

— Buddha

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9. “We’re all just walking each other home.”

— Ram Dass

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10. “The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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11. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Patience Quotes, Psychology Quotes

12. “Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

13. “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

14. “I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

15. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Hope

16. “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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17. “Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Mind Quotes

18. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

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19. “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

— Helen Keller

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20. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Poetry Quotes

21. “Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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22. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Experience Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Reflection Quotes

23. “If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Poetry Quotes

24. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

25. “People only see what they are prepared to see.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

26. “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Freedom Quotes

27. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Believing

28. “I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

29. “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

30. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Morality Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Duty Quotes

31. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

— Rumi

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32. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Wellness Quotes

33. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

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34. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

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35. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Different Quotes

36. “All problems are illusions of the mind.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Mind Quotes

37. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

— Haruki Murakami

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38. “Don’t allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Emotional Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

39. “Genius is eternal patience. ”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Artist Quotes, Genius Quotes

40. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

41. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

42. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Character Quotes

43. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

— John Muir

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Creative Quotes

44. “Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes, Powerful Quotes

45. “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Morality Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

46. “Health is the greatest possession.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Health Quotes

47. “Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Destiny Quotes

48. “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life, Short Deep Quotes

49. “A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

— Oscar Wilde

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50. “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Patience Quotes, Spirituality Quotes