Quotes About Depth

Nós nunca nos realizamos. Somos dois abismos – um poço fitando o Céu.

Leer es soñar de la mano del otro. Leer mal y por encima es tanto como librarnos de la mano que nos guía. La superficialidad en la erudición es el mejor modo de leer bien y ser profundo.

Deus ao mar o perigo e o abysmo deu, Mas nelle é que espelhou o céu.

Ruhum gizli bir orkestra; bilemediÄŸim çalg?lar çal?yor, kemanlar ve arplar, kudümler ve davullar içimde yank?lan?yor. Kendime ancak bir senfoni diyebilirim.

Así vivo, en visión pura, el exterior animado de las cosas y los seres, indiferente como un dios de otro mundo, a su contenido-espíritu. Sólo profundizo en la superficie y en lo exterior, y cuando ansío la profundidad la busco en mí y en mi concepto de las cosas.

En mi todos los afectos se muestran en la superficie, pero con sinceridad. Siempre he sido actor, y en serio. Siempre que he amado, he fingido que he amado, y lo finjo para mí mismo.

Noi non ci realizziamo mai. Siamo due abissi - un pozzo che fissa il cielo.

Caminhamos sobre abismos Ai de quem o sente. A noite, uma noite funda Cerca-nos, ai de quem conhece Como ela é funda, como é inescrutável. Pulsam-me as veias Alucinadamente e um terror novo Obtém-me, o terror de mim mesmo.

Shpirti im është një orkestër e mistershme; nuk e di cilat vegla luan dhe fryn brenda meje: korda dhe harpa, lodra dhe daulle. E njoh veten si simfoni.

An honest sentence should always have several meanings. Verbs!

Tenho a impressão de que conheci horas de todas as cores, amores de todos os sabores, ânsias de todos os tamanhos. Desmedi-me pela vida fora, e nunca me bastei nem me sonhei bastando-me.

Mi sono moltiplicato per sentirmi. Per sentirmi ho dovuto sentire tutto, sono straripato, non ho fatto altro che traboccarmi.

In everything I am an intense, rather coarse dilettante.

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having their essential place in the literal level of the story, operate in depth as well as on the surface, increasing the story in every direction … the truer the symbol, the deeper it leads you, the more meaning it opens up

The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.

Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more." The

After a while he said, If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.