Who doesn’t love those profound realizations about life that change everything? If you enjoy these moments of brilliance, this collection of deep quotes is for you. And for even more mind-blowing awesomeness, check out these thought-provoking questions.
“Maybe plants are really farming us, giving us oxygen until we eventually expire and turn into mulch which they can consume.”
Ergotpoisoning
Every once in a while, you stumble across profound wisdom that is so deep that it changes the way you look at the world. When you have such an epiphany, it feels as if your consciousness was raised to the next level.
Thinking about these deep quotes in the right environment can be eye-opening
Maybe you came up with it yourself or someone else spoke out in a moment of total clarity. But most of these thoughts are sadly not put to paper and quickly vanish into oblivion. To prevent this from happening, we have collected some of the deepest thoughts mankind has ever come up with.
Some of these deep quotes unleash their profound potential when you take the time to think about their actual meaning. Others are so obvious that you wonder why you’ve never thought about them before. But all of them will encourage you to think deeply about yourself and the world you live in.
116 Surprisingly Deep Quotes [Full of Mind-Bending Thoughts]
Sometimes it only takes a slight nudge to elevate your thinking to a higher level. In the following, you can find those particular deep quotes that encourage you to step back from the world as you know it so that you can perceive the bigger picture.
We have categorized the following quotes into these sections:
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Here’s our selection of the most mind-bending deep quotes
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it truly is… infinite.“
William Blake
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“Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.“
Gustave Flaubert
3.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.“
Carl Jung
4.
“Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others, not realizing that everyone has a different question paper.“
Unknown
5.
“We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.“
Terence McKenna
6.
“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.“
Eckhart Tolle
7.
“When people think about traveling to the past, they worry about accidentally changing the present. But no one in the present really thinks they can radically change the future.“
Kai
8.
“The nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself.“
Alexis de Tocqueville
9.
“What’s the language deaf people think in?“
Unknown
10.
“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.“
Dave Barry
11.
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.“
Plutarch
12.
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.“
Mitch Albom
13.
“Standing at the edge of the ocean was probably the closest I’d get to touching something boundless and greater than myself. For me, the ocean had a way of putting the rest of the world into context for a couple seconds.“
Shaun David Hutchinson
14.
“He who does not fear possesses all.“
Leo Tolstoy
15.
“Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.“
Terence McKenna
16.
“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.“
Gustave Flaubert
17.
“Act like the skilled archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.“
Machiavelli
18.
“When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.“
Chinese Proverb
19.
“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.“
Vera Nazarian
20.
“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.“
Michel De Montaigne
21.
“What if Earth is like one of those uncontacted tribes in South America? Like of the whole galaxy agreed not to contact us until we find them first.“
Unknown
22.
“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.“
Mandy Hale
23.
“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.“
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
24.
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.“
Oscar Wilde
25.
“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.“
Mitch Albom
26.
“There are entire civilizations who have not known that water has a solid form as well.“
Unknown
27.
“Quiet people have the loudest minds.“
Stephen Hawking
28.
“If elevators hadn’t been invented, all the CEOs and important people would have their offices on the first floor as a sign of status.“
Live Ferociously
29.
“A fine is a tax for doing bad. A tax is a fine for doing good.“
Unknown
30.
“The tallest person in the world has physically experienced being the exact height of every other person in the world at some point.“
SilphRoad
31.
“Apparently, a lemon is not naturally occurring and is a hybrid developed by crossbreeding a bitter orange and a citron. Life never gave us lemons; we invented them all by ourselves.“
TripleRangeMerge
32.
“Both concrete and glass are mostly made of sand which makes skyscrapers just really tall sandcastles.“
Because_Logic
33.
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.“
Chuck Klosterman
34.
“Things are never as they seem. A person. A Mark. A statement. They are always deeper than we perceive.“
Kelseyleigh Reber
35.
“Earth is like a guy who knows exactly where to stand next to a bonfire.“
Bovice
36.
“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.“
Mary Shelley
37.
“Most modern human beings know so little about everything that they could not rebuild anything if they were taken 200 years back in time.“
Unknown
38.
“Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three-dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections – that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It’s hard to imagine this, so let’s visualize each connection as a disc that’s 1mm thick. Stack up the quadrillion discs on top of each other and they will reach the sun (which is ninety-three million miles from the earth) and back, three times over.“
Nessa Carey
39.
“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.“
André Gide
40.
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.“
Confucius
41.
“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.“
Rabindranath Tagore
42.
“We laugh at dogs getting excited when they hear a bark on TV, but if TV was a nonstop stream of unintelligible noises and then someone suddenly spoke to you in your language, you’d be pretty fucking startled too.“
Biles
43.
“Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have.“
Melissa Francis
44.
“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.“
Unknown
45.
“You have to be odd to be number one.“
Dr. Seuss
46.
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.“
Indian Proverb
47.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.“
Albert Einstein
48.
“Character is tested when you are up against it.“
Dick Vermeil
49.
“Coffee makes you hyper, but coffee shops are designed for people to chill, whereas alcohol is a depressant but bars and clubs are designed for people to be energetic.“
Ybarray Mapea
50.
“When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.“
Zjb55446
51.
“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.“
David Russell
52.
“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.“
Bruce Garrabrandt
53.
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.“
Viktor Frankl
54.
“If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.“
Leo Tolstoy
55.
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.“
Kahlil Gibran
56.
“There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.“
Rachel Hartman
57.
“The internet both almost killed off the postal service with email and then made it more needed than ever with online delivery.“
Cinimod
58.
“Synergy is what happens when 1 + 1=10 or 100 or even 1,000! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.“
Stephen Covey
59.
“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.“
William C. Hannan
60.
“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.“
Aaron Laurits
61.
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.“
Rumi
62.
“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.“
Lee Segall
63.
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.“
Chinese proverb
64.
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.“
Kahlil Gibran
65.
“When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something.“
Anita Krizzan
66.
“Each new chapter of our lives requests an old part of us to fall and a new part of us to rise.“
Jenna Galbut
67.
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.“
Martin Luther
68.
“Sometimes you have to shut your eyes, so you can see the real beauty.“
Kilian Jornet
Deep quotes about life
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“The biggest form of peer pressure as a kid wasn’t drugs, alcohol, or cigarettes. It came during exams when it was completely silent and you heard everyone turn to page 2 while you were still on the first question.“
Prophettx
70.
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.“
Helen Keller
71.
“I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.“
Alexis de Tocqueville
72.
“We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.“
Bryant McGill
73.
“Anybody that questions why you are shoveling six inches of snow in the *middle* of a snowstorm hasn’t shoveled twelve inches of snow at the end of a snowstorm.“
Boss_Angler
74.
“You aren’t actually afraid of being left in your house. You are afraid that you aren’t alone.“
Teardrop
75.
“Don’t wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.“
Albert Einstein
76.
“To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.“
Criss Jami
77.
“As kids we were taught not to get in strangers cause. Now we literally summon strangers from the Internet and get in their cars.“
FnFollies
78.
“For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.“
Kahlil Gibran
79.
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.“
Fannie Flagg
80.
“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.“
Frank McCourt
81.
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.“
Friedrich Nietzsche
82.
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.“
Ezra Pound
83.
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.“
Oliver Wendell Holmes
84.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.“
Thomas Paine
85.
“Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.“
Amit Kalantri
Short deep quotes
86.
“All the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.“
Mark Lawrence
87.
“Being able to do well in high school without having to put in much effort is actually a big disadvantage later in life.“
Unknown
88.
“A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.“
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
89.
“Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.“
Dana E. Donovan
90.
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.“
Walter Lippmann
91.
“Pavlov probably thought about feeding his dogs every time someone rang a bell.“
Pyro
92.
“In her dealings with man, destiny never closed her accounts.“
Oscar Wilde
93.
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.“
Philip K. Dick
94.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.“
Haruki Murakami
Deep meaning quotes
95.
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.“
Douglas Ada
96.
“There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.“
Victor Hugo
97.
“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.“
Lama Surya Das
98.
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.“
Arthur Schopenhauer
99.
“If I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.“
Albert Camus
100.
“Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you’ll come to remember your spirit. When you’re able to transcend an aversion to silence, you’ll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated.“
Wayne W. Dyer
101.
“I don’t believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a receiver of consciousness.“
Graham Hancock
102.
“If you build a wall to separate people, there will be those who find a way around the wall, or over it, or under it, or through it. We humans are not meant to be contained, and neither are our thoughts.“
Teresa R. Funke
103.
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.“
William Blake
104.
“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.“
Hermann Hesse
105.
“Can a person who has been brought up in the heart of a thick dark forest, where one has to beat a path through multiple layers of trees just to take a letter to the post office, have any conception of what it’s like to spend one’s entire childhood waiting for a single tree to grow?“
Audur Ava Olafsdottir
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106.
“All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.“
Landon Parham
107.
“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.“
James Allen
108.
“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.“
Robert Oppenheimer
109.
“The most ordinary things in life are also the most mysterious and profound.“
Marty Rubin
110.
“Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity.“
Sorin Cerin
111.
“Nothing is immune to time. Not even eternity.“
Mike Carey
112.
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.“
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
113.
“To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.“
C.G. Jung
114.
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.“
T.S. Eliot
115.
“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.“
Bernard Baruch
116.
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.“
Albert Einstein
When reading through this list of profound quotes, one simply cannot help but wonder at the infinite possibilities that lie ahead. You may have noticed that some of these quotes inspire you to look at life from a different perspective. Others may encourage you to leave behind all biases to welcome a new way of thinking that is more aligned with reality.
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