A small chat about the weather is very dandy when you want a quick chat. And so is talking about the latest viral cute cat video or the one with a dog with bunny ears. However, these airy conversations usually lack substance and thought-feed, don’t they? And if you feel the urge to talk about something thought-provoking and soul-enhancing, why not try and pick some of these deep conversation topics we’ve rounded up in this article?
From compassion to global problems and from the relationship the two of you have to your favorite childhood books – these are all great conversation starters! Of course, deep conversations usually start by themselves, but there’s nothing wrong with exploring a predetermined cause, especially if you are genuinely curious about other people’s deep thoughts on it. And hey, not all of these conversation topics are grave, so to say – they can also be quite entertaining, even if they require a bit of thinking to do!
So, ready to check out these interesting conversation topics? If so, keep on scrolling, for they are just a smidgen further down. Once you are there, give your vote for the deep topics you’d like to discuss with someone and then share this article with them – they might pick an equally interesting topic also!
#1
Do people have a right to be happy or should they have to earn it?
#2
What is your self destructive habit?
#3
What would you like people to say about you after you die?
#4
If you could go back and do one good deed that you had the opportunity to do but didn’t, what would it be and why?
#5
If pressing a button meant you received 5 million dollars but it also killed 5 people somewhere in the world, would you press it? What if it killed only 1 person or killed 20 people? What if the people were people you knew?
#6
What is most likely to bring about the extinction of the human race? How can it be avoided?
#7
How often do you leave your comfort zone?
#8
What dream did you give up on?
#9
How would we tell if we were actually living in a simulation?
#10
Is competition good for us?
#11
If you could live in a virtual reality world of your own creation, would you?
#12
What is a year of life worth? How about a day?
#13
Who should be responsible for taking care of the elderly, the government, their families, or the elderly themselves?
#14
How does tribalism and creating in groups and out groups (e.g. race, religion, sport team fans, people with a hobby, etc.) help and hurt society?
#15
What does the ideal life look like?
#16
When was the last time you were ashamed by how you handled a situation?
#17
What age do you feel on the inside?
#18
Tell about your most difficult challenge thus far in your life. Were you able to overcome and what did you learn?
#19
If you had a theme song, what would it be? Why?
#20
Are humans better at creation or destruction?
#21
How are emotions useful for humans and the human race?
#22
What do we do now that will be looked at as primitive and backwards in 100 years?
#23
What flaws in human nature hold humanity back?
#24
When do you feel most alone?
#25
How do you deal with trauma?
#26
Why do humans create art?
#27
Can a positive outlook make any situation better?
#28
What would you wish to accomplish in life if you could only accomplish one thing?
#29
What would you do on a “perfect” day? Would you want to do something with someone else or be alone?
#30
What are your weaknesses?
#31
When do you need assurance of my love the most and how can I show that love?
#32
What do you think are the five most important traits for a person to have?
#33
Have you ever had the opportunity to help someone?
#34
Is human nature constant or is it molded by culture? Can human nature be completely changed by culture or society?
#35
Do people have an obligation to help others or should people be responsible for helping themselves?
#36
If you were given an envelope with the time and date of your death inside, would you open it?
#37
If sacrificing your own life would save the lives of a specific number of strangers, how many strangers would need to be saved for you to sacrifice your own life? What if the people were friends? How about family?
#38
Will technology be humanity’s salvation, downfall, or neither? Why?
#39
Do you think shame is a natural human emotion or something that society drills into us?
#40
How big of a part should work be in a person’s life?
#41
How do you best connect with others?
#42
Would you rather be hated or forgotten?
#43
Who or what do you think of when you think of love?
#44
Would you rather be alone for the rest of your life or always be surrounded by annoying people?
#45
Tell about a time when someone showed you kindness or compassion. Tell about a time when you showed compassion or kindness to someone else.
#46
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would buy? Why?
#47
What scares you the most? Has what you are afraid of changed since you were a child?
#48
Has your relationship changed since you began dating?
#49
What did you dream of being when you were a child? Have you managed to achieve any of your dreams?
#50
What is your dream job and do you believe you will ever succeed at having it?
#51
Is there something that you would like to change about yourself? How can you achieve a change?
#52
Do you and your spouse have the same opinion about if the glass is half empty or half full? What changes can you make to make your life more fulfilling?
#53
What are the strongest and weakest parts of your relationship? How can you make the weak parts stronger?
#54
When you are worried or hurt, what can your spouse do to provide comfort and encouragement?
#55
In what ways do I show you that you are a very important person to me?
#56
If you died today, is there something you would regret not doing or something you would regret not saying?
#57
If you only had one month to live, how would you spend your time? With whom?
#58
What one possession do you cherish the most? Why?
#59
If you could live at any time in history and experience any event, when would you choose?
#60
If you could have any car you desired, which one would you choose?
#61
What are your greatest strengths?
#62
Have you ever had the opportunity to meet anyone famous? Did you get their autograph?
#63
If you left alone in the wilderness and could have only one item, what would it be?
#64
Where’s your life headed?
#65
What are the highest and lowest points of your life?
#66
What is holding you back from being the person you want to be?
#67
What are your biggest goals for your life? What progress have you made in attaining them?
#68
What’s something terrifying that we’ve all come to accept as a fact of life?
#69
What is the best way to explore human nature: psychology, philosophy, or biology?
#70
What is a miracle that happens every day?
#71
What is the purpose of art in society?
#72
How important is freedom of the press to a healthy society?
#73
Is taking a life ever justified? If so, where is the line? When is a person’s life considered forfeit?
#74
Do you think that humans as a species have gotten better through the generations or worse? Why?
#75
What do you consider a wasted life?
#76
Do you think humans will survive long enough to evolve into something different or will we make ourselves extinct before we have the chance to?
#77
If we could screen babies for psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies, should we? What should we do with the babies that are likely become psychopaths?
#78
Why do people do things that they know hurts themselves and those around them?
#79
When things go wrong do you blame yourself or others more?
#80
Who causes you the most stress?
#81
What is taboo that shouldn’t be?
#82
How well do you think the mind can understand itself?
#83
Why do you think people feel so empty in the modern world, or is this how it’s always been?
#84
Is there ever a time when giving up makes sense?
#85
Do you believe in karma? Why?
#86
What do you think is more important: exploring the world or yourself?
#87
In what way are you your own worst enemy?
#88
What makes you excited? What was the last exciting experience you had?
#89
Have you ever had a very bad nightmare? What was it about?
#90
When and where do you feel most like your real self? Why?
#91
What characteristics do you think are necessary for a strong relationship? Do you possess these characteristics?
#92
What controversial issue – social or political – do you feel strongly about? Why?
#93
What was your favorite book as a child? Why was it your favorite?
#94
What was your favorite movie as a child? Do you still enjoy seeing it? How many times have you seen it?
#95
If you could go back to your childhood, what advice would you like to have from your adult self?
#96
If you could be any character in a book or movie, who would you be? Why?
#97
Discuss your dream vacation and create a plan to make it happen.
#98
Why are you and your spouse compatible?
#99
How do you and your spouse handle disagreements? Do you think you can improve in this area? How?
#100
Discuss what motivates you in life as individuals and as a couple.
#101
What talents and skills to you have?
#102
If you have children, how good a job do you think you are doing raising them?
#103
Share a secret with your spouse. What do you think about couples keeping secrets from each other?
#104
Ask each other what personal habits you have that each of you would like changed.
#105
If you had the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Give a reason for your choice.
#106
What is your major goal in life?
#107
Do you think adults deserve respect? Do you think teenagers do?
#108
What kind of changes would you make to the world if you could?
#109
Is it ever okay to lie? If it is, when and in what kind of situations?
#110
Whom do you respect? Why?
#111
What are three things for which you are grateful?
#112
What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done?
#113
Do you like school? Why or why not?
#114
Who is the most important person in your life? How can you enhance your relationship with this person?
#115
What so you find is the hardest thing for you to do?
#116
What is the most frightening thing you have ever done?
#117
What is a personal tragedy you have overcome? How did the experience change you?
#118
Is there life on other planets? What is the reason for your opinion?
#119
What awards or prizes have you won? What was the reason you won them?
#120
If you won a million dollars, what would you do?
#121
How have your strengths help you to succeed? How have your faults hindered you?
#122
If you had to sum up the whole human species in 3 words, what would those words be?
#123
Is what we perceive reality or just a construct of our minds? Can our minds correctly interpret reality or is reality subjective?
#124
Is tribalism and people separating themselves into “us” and “them” groups, a learned or genetic trait? Can it be overcome? If so, how?
#125
What would a perfect city be like?
#126
What is the most uplifting thing happening in the world right now? What is the most tragic thing?
#127
Can people with vastly different cultural backgrounds live together peacefully? How?
#128
What is the purpose of a human life?
#129
Are some lives more valuable than others?
#130
What does it mean to die well?
#131
How would you like to die? Comfortably in bed surrounded by family, doing something you love, or some other way?
#132
What is the most important thing a person can do to improve themselves?
#133
What makes a person truly evil? Are they born that way or did their environment make them that way?
#134
What event would you rather die than live through?
#135
What stops people from understanding themselves?
#136
Is human consciousness just electrons flowing through neurons, or is it something beyond the physical?
#137
How much does your personality change around different groups of people?
#138
What does our society need most?
#139
What responsibilities, if any, do tech companies have to control how people use their platforms and what content shows up on them?
#140
How do you think our friendship will change over time as we get older and our life circumstances change?
#141
What do you think the evolutionary reason is for humans basing so many of their choices on emotions?
#142
Do you think animals have a sense of right and wrong or is it just humans?
#143
What could you not accept at all in a relationship?
#144
When was the last time you cried?
#145
If you could meet one person, living or dead, who would it be?
#146
Who is your hero and what qualities make them your choice?
#147
What values are important in your life? Were they imparted to you by your parents? If not, from where did they come?
#148
What kind of date do you consider romantic?
#149
What would cause you to end a relationship? Would you be able to forgive and forget and renew the relationship?
#150
What is one thing that scares you the most? Why?
#151
Describe your biggest regret?
#152
Describe a challenge you have faced and how you overcame it.
#153
List the top five qualities that you adore most about your partner. Take a minute to guess what is on the other spouse’s list.
#154
What makes you feel the happiest and the most fulfilled?
#155
If your family and friends were asked to describe you, who would provide the most accurate description? What do you think they would say?
#156
What concerns and interests do you have in which I do not seem interested?
#157
What things make you sad as a parent and as a spouse?
#158
Tell me five things that you enjoy doing with me, with the most enjoyable first.
#159
If you got a tattoo, what would it be? Why is that your choice?
#160
In what situation(s) do you become discouraged?
#161
Who had a profound influence on you as a child? Was the influence positive or negative?
#162
Have you ever written poetry, a story, or painted a picture? If so, what about?
#163
If you could have a super-power, which one would you choose and why?
#164
Where have you lived, for how long, and how old were you when you moved from each place? Which was your favorite?
#165
Tell about something that made you laugh recently.
#166
Are you close to your siblings?
#167
What do you think the world will be like in twenty-five years?
#168
If you could invite one person over for dinner, who would it be?
#169
What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done?
#170
What aspects of humans have made us a successful species?
#171
What makes people believe absurd conspiracy theories?
#172
Should governments make laws to protect people from hurting themselves?
#173
How important are morals in a healthy society? What are the most important morals for citizens to have?
#174
What do you think about the singularity? The idea that eventually artificial intelligence will advance to the point where computers are more intelligent than humans.
#175
Do animals experience emotions? If so, do they experience emotions in the same way humans do? If not, how do they experience the world and what dictates their behavior?
#176
Do you think the future will be better than the present? Why?
#177
What lies do you most often tell yourself?
#178
Do you think the present is better than 50 years ago? Why?
#179
What do a lot of parents do that screws up their kid?
#180
Why are there so many people who are lonely? Why is it so hard for people to make real connections when almost everyone wants to make real connections?
#181
What are some examples of outside behaviors that are symptoms of inner emotional scars?
#182
Why is depression so stigmatized in society?
#183
Why do some people stay in relationships that they know are toxic?
#184
What are some good and bad things about the culture you grew up in?
#185
How can we know if how we perceive colors is how others perceive that color? How do we know that colors don’t look different to everyone?
#186
How do you think the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligent life would impact society?
#187
What do other people often think about you that is not true?
#188
Have you ever experienced something completely unexplainable?
#189
Would you travel alone to a foreign country?
#190
If you were to give yourself three challenges right now, what would they be?
#191
Is there something your spouse would like you to change? Are you willing to make this change?
#192
What is the furthest you have ever traveled from your home? Where did you go and how long did you stay there?
#193
If you could go on a trip anywhere in the world with anyone, where would you go and whom would you take?
#194
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
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