Quotes About Depth

It looked was deep, gaping like a mouth.

Life's not so simple. People are many things, each of them true.

Or she could listen to that other voice, the voice that wasn't a voice but something so deep, so indivisible from her own consciousness that it didn't have sound.

Perhaps nothing is as simple as it looks. Perhaps everything has another layer, a hidden room that only reveals itself when you accidentally stumble across the secret door. Or perhaps I'm talking bollocks and it's time to go to bed.

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.

Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation.

Now, seeing the newchild and its expression, he was reminded that the light eyes were not only a rarity but gave the one who had them a certain look—what was it? Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn't been discovered yet.

The woman is so full of silences, they spill over.

She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there was something that sparked with warmth, that kept those eyes from being cold.

Tu hai gli occhi irlandesi, ragazzo mio. Un giorno vedrai con occhi che non sono i tuoi, sentirai con il cuore di un'altra persona. Selvaggi occhi irlandesi, Nathan. Quando ami qualcuno, ama con tutto te stesso e sinceramente, ma stai attento perché quegli occhi non sono soltanto lo specchio della tua anima, ma anche finestre sull'anima di colei che ami Il Doppio volto dell'Amore - Wild Card

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

Win them with your beauty, but catch them off guard with your soul.

A short story is photograph. A novel is a film.

Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity.

No one is every only one thing. Inside one person there are so many different people, and quite often they're at war with each other, and sometimes one of them is winning, and sometimes another. We're all so hard to understand, aren't we? I don't even understand myself.

The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.

a great big hole

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you are dreaming in this language right now. And perhaps there is a word that has changed the course of human existence. A word written in the depth of things, in the quantum and genetic and synaptic codes, a word that told all beings and all life--enough.

Did you know if you look deep, deep, deep into a cat's eyes, there's an alter with three candles ?

He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way," Aunt Margaret said. "Your momma knows that." But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn't be expressed.

Sí, las penas de amor abren insospechados abismos, espasmos de agonía que creo que en realidad se refieren a otra cosa, que van más allá de la historia amorosa concreta, que conectan con algo muy básico de nuestra construcción emocional. Con la piedra maestra en la que se asienta el edificio que somos.