Short Deep Quotes with Life Truths that Hit Different

Sometimes even a short, simple quote can offer some profound meaning, which is why we have put together a list of all the best deep quotes for your next post. And if you’re looking for short deep quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

Short Deep Quotes

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ―Albert Einstein

“Hate comes from intimidation, love comes from appreciation.” – Tyga

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.”―Elie Wiesel

“You shouldn’t have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.” – Daniel Quinn

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Life is way too short to continue thinking you’re not worthy or good enough.” – Kevin Ngo

“Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.” – Martin Heidegger

“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise

“Enjoy life while you can. It can be taken in a heartbeat.” – Jasmin Morin

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” – Elie Wiesel

“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” – Oscar Wilde

“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.” – Albert Camus

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” – Ashley Montagu

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy

“Happiness is within.” – Martin Yan

“The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell

“If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

“Challenges are what make life interesting.” – Joshua Marine

“Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” — Oprah Winfrey

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.” – APJ Abdul Kalam

“It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” – Willie Nelson

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”– William G.T. Shedd

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You are your choices.” – Seneca

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

“Life is too short and happiness is too rare.” – A.R.Lucas

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.” — Jackson Brown Jr.

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid

“Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernandez

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.” – William S. Burroughs

“We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves.” —  Bruce Lee

“If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.” – Toni Morrison

“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” — Confucius

“If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.” – Rumi

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe

“Look for the thing you notice but no one else notices.” – Rick Rubin

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung

“No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” ―Sai Pradeep

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“The truly wise and happy are never rushed.” – Maxime Lagacé

“For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is but what he knows.” – Sir Francis Bacon

“Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.” – Orhan Pamuk

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” –Nelson Mandela

“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” — Mary Oliver

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde

“Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.” —Gordon B. Hinckley

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“Big dreams create the magic that stir men’s souls to greatness.” —Bill McCartney

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran

“If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?” —Lee Strasberg

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – William Faulkner

“He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.” — Albert Einstein

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”– C.S. Lewis

“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” – Pierre Corneille

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” – Bob Marley

“Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.” – Robert Greene

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

“You can tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.” – Beverly Rubik

“The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.” – Oprah Winfrey

“When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.” – Mac Miller

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” —Og Mandino

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

“In the circle of life there is no top, no corner, and no straight lines.” – Mike Dolan

“No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” – Maori proverb

“In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.” — Unknown

“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“Don’t use yesterday’s state of mind, to make today’s decision.”― C. Nzingha Smith

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine

“What you deeply need is not stuff, comfort or beauty, it’s meaning.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” – Buddha

“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”― Malala Yousafzai

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”— John A. Shedd

“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” — Muhammad Ali

“A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” – Dr. Suess

“Love is a verb. Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.” — Stephen Covey

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” – Mother Teresa

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

“Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

“Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” — Aesop

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” ―William James

“Live and let live.” – Yiddish Proverb

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn

“What matters most in life is often invisible.” — Duane Elgin

“Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note. – Kimora Lee Simmons

“The longer I go about living, I see it’s the relationship that is most meaningful.” – William Shatner

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Kierkegaard

“Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan

“Don’t look for big things, just do small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“No guts no glory.” – General Frederick Corbin Blesse

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

“Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time”, is like saying, “I don’t want to.” – Lao Tzu

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.” – Mark Twain

“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” – Victor Hugo

“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” – Seneca

“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.” – Henrik Ibsen

“The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Gerard Way

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.” – R. Brault

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.” – Andre Breton

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” – Forrest Gump

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” –Rosa Parks

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.” — Arthur Rimbaud

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne

“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” ― Sun Tzu

“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.” —Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin

“The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them.” – Stephen King

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain

“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese

“Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C. S. Lewis

“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica N. S. Yourko

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.” – Natalie Cole

“And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – Oscar Wilde

“Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”― Oscar Wilde

“Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi

“Your way of thinking affects your life very deeply. Think positive and be positive.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

“Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.” – Woody Allen

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”― Michelle Williams

“Be like the flower that gives fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” – Ali Ibn Abi Talib

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ―Charles Bukowski

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” – Lillian Dickson

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

“The average men consume. The wise create.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Don’t worry, Be Happy.” – Bobby McFerrin

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”— Confucius

“Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.” – Anonymous

“You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ―Confucius

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.” – Edward Abbey

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi

“Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.” – Alexandre Dumas

“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.” ― Brennan Manning

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” – Joshua Wisenbaker

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

“Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.”― Mohammed Ali Bapir

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert Schuller

“Today I do what others won’t, so that tomorrow I can accomplish what others don’t.” – Jerry Rice

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” – Voltaire

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” — Corazon Aquino

“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” — Khalil Gibran

“Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews

“What’s done is done.” – William Shakespeare

“People do not lack strength; they lack will.” – Victor Hugo

“Courage doesn’t always roar.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

“Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.” – Christina Rossetti

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass

So that is it for our list of Short Deep Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one!

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