75 Deep True Quotes About Life That Hit Different
Some quotes resonate more deeply than others.
Sometimes, they make us stop and think.
Sometimes, they tell us what we already know but need to hear again.
These deep true quotes speak to the honest parts of life, the real feelings we all share.
They’re simple but powerful.
Deep True Quotes about Life
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — Haruki Murakami
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” — William Shakespeare
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” — Plato
“Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.” — Emily Dickinson
“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” — Sylvia Plath
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” — C.S. Lewis
“We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” — Virginia Woolf
“The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.” — George Eliot
“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.” — Mark Twain
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” — Franz Kafka
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” — Mark Twain
“Trust our heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.” — E. E. Cummings
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” — Jack Kerouac
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain.” — Sylvia Plath
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” — Margaret Atwood
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” — Emily Dickinson
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” — Anne Frank
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop
“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“Having no limitation as limitation.” — Bruce Lee
“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Anger is like an oven; heat without light.” — James Clear
“Forgiveness is like the moon; light without heat.” — James Clear
“The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.” — James Clear
“You cannot change what you refuse to confront.” — John Spence
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” — John Spence
“Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.” — John Spence
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world.” — Neil Gaiman
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.” — Carl Jung
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” — Lao Tzu
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates
“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.” — Anaïs Nin
“Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Kahlil Gibran
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“We were together. I forget the rest.” — Walt Whitman
“Love is friendship set to music.” — Jackson Pollock
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” — C.G. Jung
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
“Become what you are.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“What labels me, negates me.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.” — Haruki Murakami
“You could not step twice into the same river.” — Heraclitus
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan W. Watts
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.” — Margaret Mitchell
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.” — Isabel Allende
“Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.” — Ray Bradbury
“Astonishment is the proper response to reality.” — Terence McKenna
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” — Isaac Asimov
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” — Aristotle
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” — Simone de Beauvoir
