Quotes About Depth

Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.

Nobody can judge an internal injury, he had said, by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.

We fell into the love that had been lying beneath our love like water below ice, and understood that while we had been having a lot of fun together we had only been skating on the surface, and now we were in as deep as we could go.

I have been a swallower of lives; and to know me, just the one of me, you'll have to swallow the lot as well.

It's the difference, you see, between casual sex and love. The more you love, the more closely you get to know, the more profoundly you see, the more you are enriched.

that the truth often lies below the surface, and a man may be a great deal more than his most easily caricatured characteristics

music was what he feared and hated most, because music slid beneath the thinking mind to seize the heart;

I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.

Una alegría más triste que la tristeza.

I have in my heart three feelings with which one can never be bored: sadness, love and gratitude.

Il faut le malheur pour creuser certaines mines mystérieuses cachées dans l'intelligence humaine. (p. 174)

There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only someone who has suffered the deepest misfortune is capable of experiencing the heights of felicity.

It needs misfortune to be able to dig up in those secret mines, which are hidden in man's soul.

Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du coeur, comme chaque fruit son ver.

Posle toga bismo na koji trenutak zaspali i, utapaju?i se u svoju ljubav, bili bismo dva uporna ronioca koja izlaze na površinu vode samo da udahnu vazduh.

El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga al pensamiento; el ojo es sólo un punto, y abarca leguas.