Quotes About Depth

I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.

Who ever talks about a lifelong, intimate friendship expressing itself in the broadest possible range of conversation? If people are really alive and alert it ought to go on and on, prolonging life because there is always something more to be said.

I guess most of what we understand about people is just the surface stuff

Sentir más optimismo, ser más audaces y conocer propósitos mayores mientras entienden lo que significa sentirse inspirados en profundidad, viviendo el momento en vez de estar marcados por el pasado o asustados por el futuro.

Y en mi vida personal, hago lo mismo: solo como la mejor comida, aunque en pequeñas cantidades; solo leo los libros más originales y profundos; paso el tiempo en los espacios más luminosos e inspiradores y visito los lugares más fascinantes.

When hope is hard to find, represent possibility. When people are scared, stand for strength. When communities are divided, be a unifier. When superficiality is winning, go deep. When mediocrity is common, create masterwork. When giving up is normal, persist. When civility is unusual, be respectful. When entitlement is dominant, be selfless. When rudeness is ubiquitous, be kind.

Unlike modern films where superstars dominate every scene, the Hollywood films of the golden era have depth in writing and casting, so the story can resonate with more than one tone.

The main point, it seems to me, is to maintain a life of active risk and affection, while helping the body along the path of decay, remembering always that the value of life does not consist in its length but in its depth.

Hellwell lies at the top of the world and it leads down to its roots. It is probably as old as the world itself; and if it is not, it should be, because it looks as if it were.

What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers—a kind of sclerosis. [Which means: no depth. Layers of surface—or rather, each layer: a totality. Units]

Il me vient alors cette exaltation d'aimer à fond quelqu'un d'inconnu, et qui le reste à jamais: mouvement mystique: j'accède à la connaissance de l'inconnaissance.

Wie ein schlechter Konzertsaal ist auch der affektive Raum mit toten Winkeln durchsetzt, in die der Klang nicht mehr hineinreicht. Ist der vollkommene Gesprächspartner, der Freund, also nicht der, der in ihrem Umkreis die größtmögliche Resonanz schafft? Laßt sich Freundschaft nicht als ein Raum totaler Klangfülle beschreiben?

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

In the present day, we follow Peri on to the dinner party, where she arrives stained and disheveled but determined to dismiss everyone's concern. That's easy because the other guests are extraordinarily wealthy and wholly self-absorbed... I kept wanting more depth from Dr. Azur's presentations. Finally, I realized that's the point: He's a classic master teacher in the Dead Poets Society mode: iconoclastic but gimmicky, glazed with intellectuality but essentially narcissistic.

Light reading (by this, I mean books of little importance) may amuse for the moment, but leaves nothing solid behind.

He stared into his eyes

Being pool-trained, I'm used to seeing four sides and a bottom. When that clarity is removed I get nervous. I imagine things. Sharks, the slippery sides of large fish, shaggy pieces of sunken frigates, dark corroded iron, currents. I can swim along the shore, my usual stroke rolled and tipped by the waves, the ribbed sandy bottom wiggling beneath me, but eventually I get spooked by the open-ended horizon, the cloudy blue thought of that sheer drop-the continental shelf.

The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all.

Why am I still surprised when it turns out there is more to the story?

The surface of everything is thinner than we know. A person can fall right through, without any warning at all. Virgil Wander

literature enlarges our world of experience to include both more of the physical world and things not yet imagined, giving the "actual world" a "new dimension of depth" (Lewis, Of Other Worlds 29). This makes it possible for literature to strip Christian doctrines of their "stained glass" associations and make them appear in their "real potency" (37), a possibility Lewis himself realized in the Narnia series and the space trilogy.

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.

Je tiefer das Gefühl, desto größer der Schmerz.