15 Quotes That Are So Deep, They Will Give You Chills

December 13, 2014

Here's a list of some very powerful quotes that will travel deep down into your soul. Some you may have heard before, others hopefully will be something new for you to sit and ponder.

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2. "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
Stephen McCranie

3. "Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute."
Edgar Allen Poe

4. "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
Plato

5. "History is a set of lies agreed upon."
Napoleon

6. "Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace."
Jonathan Lockwood Huie

7. "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ernest Hemingway

8. "If you lose a spouse, you're called a widow, or a widower. If you're a child and you lose your parents, then you're an orphan. But what's the word to describe a parent who loses a child? I guess that's just too f**king awful to even have a name."
Brenda Chenowith from Six Feet Under

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10. "Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
Benjamin Franklin

11. "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

12. "She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?"
Toni Morrison

13. "At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."

14. "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso

15. "But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
Mark Twain

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