Quotes About Depth

The banks of life cannot hold my love, which is as broad as the sea.

Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! 'I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--

Plus bas, encore plus bas, toujours plus bas.

The water was a full unknowable world.

FOR WANG LUN Li Bai is already on the boat, preparing to depart, I suddenly hear the sound of stamping and singing on the shore. The water of Taohua pond reaches a thousand feet in depth, But still it's not as deep as Wang Lun's feelings seeing me off.

I mean that she was complicated. Everybody is," Ling said quietly. "Don't erase her like that. She deserves better.

Simplifying people was a way of not having to think too much about them, to make them fit into your own story. People were inconvenient, though. Behind the idea of a person you constructed to suit yourself, the people you loved had their own stories- whole worlds going on inside- and you ignored them at your peril.

All this time, he'd been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.

A pool just isn't the same as the ocean. It has no energy. No life.

Not only are there before and after, but there are also beginnings and returns. Not only is there the creation of the humans, formed of corn or clay, with a breath of wind or a god, but there are mythic destinies. Sometimes myth is formed by the body and what happens to it, especially in the realm of pain, depth, and birth. Phantoms of generations past are in our bodies. These explain us to ourselves.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.

At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality