Quotes About Depth

And although it might be best of all to be Socrates satisfied, having both happiness and depth, we would give up some happiness in order to gain the depth.

One layer off from the deepest is a cartoon.

Tribulación humana! ¡Cuantas palabras tristes estaban aún escondidas en la entraña del hombre!

Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who love.

As metáfora são a maneira de nos perdermos nas aparências ou de ficarmos imóveis no mar das aparências. Nesse sentido, uma metáfora é como um salva-vidas. E não se deve esquecer que há salva-vidas que boiam e salva-vidas que vão direto para o fundo. É bom nunca esquecer isso.

La pasión es geometría. Rombos, cilindros, ángulos latidores. La pasión es geometría que cae al abismo, observada desde el fondo del abismo.

A metafora az egyik módja, hogy elvesszünk a látszat világában, vagy hogy mozdulatlanul álljunk a látszat tengerében.

El cielo era una manta tapada por una manta que a su vez tapaba otra manta aún más gruesa y húmeda.

but inside she could feel herself starting to scream, or rather, she could feel, and see, the diving line between not-screaming and screaming. It was like opening your eyes in a cave bigger than the earth

Architecture led to the vanishing point which led to architecture.

Did you feel that?' I asked him. He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.

I once knew of a minstrel who bragged of having had a thousand women, one time each. He would never know what I knew, that to have one woman a thousand times, and each time find in her a different delight, is far better. I knew now what gleamed in the eyes of old couples when they stared at each other across a room...My familiarity with her was a more potent love elixir than any potion sold by a hedge-witch in the market.

Somewhere beneath the tides of those superficial emotions she knew the cold deep current of her grief sought to pull her down and drown her.

You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known." The

Some friendships go deeper than madness or common sense

There had been a few occasions when words had so reached into him and settled their truth in him like roots in rich earth.

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.

There's a lot more to you than meets the eye." "There's more to everyone than meets the eye," Clay said. "I hope you'll forgive me—

Her eyes filled with a dark fury that sliced right to his soul.

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

there's other things

My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.

comprendo que no valoraba el amor más importante: el que surge de lo más profundo del corazón.

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty.