What is the DEEPEST quote you know?

Answer 1

The universe is not just stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine. Haldene.

Answer 2

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Answer 3

First let me say I have no favorites, nor can I say that any quote is better than another. There are quotes that are what I need at a particular time that at another time will seem almost silly to me. But here is a poem that I like. Not necessarily the deepest, but presently it has meaning for me.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced or cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid
It matters not how strait the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul

William Ernest Henley

Answer 4

That 'we are all in a gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' - Oscar Wild.

... and if I could not go any deeper than this, then that was due to my personal limitations.

Answer 5

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.



Nietzsche

Answer 6

It's rather a song of George Michael, it tells a lot about guilt between lovers "And I'll never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rythm,though it's easy to pretend,I know you're not a fool,should've known better than to cheat a friend and waste the chance that I've been given,so I'll never gonna dance again the way I danced with you.
Time can never mend the careless whispers of a good friend.To the heart and mind,ignorance is kind,there's no comfort in the truth,pain is all you'll find"

Answer 7

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Answer 8

Deepest quote:
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
- A Buddhist proverb.

Other favored quotes:
If you seek peace, prepare for war.
- Vegetius

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To conquer the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
-Sun Tzu

Before all else, be armed.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Answer 9

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandela

Answer 10

"Time pursues us like an endless taskmaster,
releasing only those it delivers unto boredom"

Not too deep, but a favourite of mine.

Great question - Ive read some good stuff here.