Long Deep Quotes:

He leaned over and kissed me. A long, deep kiss filled with promise and passion. I loved the way he kissed me. Like he was drinking in the taste of me and still coming back thirsty.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Drinking, Passion, Kissing, Long Deep

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Love, Dream, Art, Spiritual Darkness, Spooky

When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.

- Denton Welch

source: Denton Welch (1952). “The Denton Welch Journals”

topic: Love, Dream, Heart, Long Deep

I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

- Warren G. Harding

topic: Hurt, Long, Relief, Long Deep

A person's shadow stood for his legacy, his impact on the world. Some people cast hardly any shadow at all. Some cast long, deep shadows that endured for centuries.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Impact, Long, People, Long Deep, Impact On The World

Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.1674, eBookIt.com

topic: Song, Sadness, Sleep, Sad Song, Long Deep

I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.91, Anchor

topic: Long, Lines, Remember, Long Deep, Deep Breath

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.

- Vera Nazarian

source: Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

topic: Character, Play, Long, Long Deep, Imaginary World

Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.

- A. G. Mohan

topic: Breathing, Practice, Long, Long Deep, Deep Breathing

I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

- Jack Gilbert

source: Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.26, Knopf

topic: Women, Heart, Dark, Hunted, Long Deep

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

- Thomas Starr King

source: Thomas Starr King (1866). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.91

topic: Wind, Long, Ashes, Long Deep

A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

- Eric Maisel

topic: Keys, Long, Centering, Long Deep