Quotes About Depth

We are all more–and less–than what we seem.

I believe what I choose. I am not as simple as I seem. Now go!

Sometimes its like Nathaniel Hawthorne is trying to be deep.

Not even the human imagination satisfies the endless emptiness of the soul.

Your eyes are wide open. I feel as though I could step inside them and make myself at home.

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.

Gondoskodás nélkül ki tudja, milyen mélyre süllyedtem volna a tudatlanságba - még tanár lett volna belÅ'lem a végén.

Cel mai atractiv lucru din lume este fata pe care, instinctiv, o acoperim cu o panza. Cand ajunge si mai atragatoare, fascinanta chiar, o punem la doi metri sub pamant.

We're none of us hard as we seem.

Most of my favorite stories as a reader come in at this length. Short novels are all killer, no filler. They offer the economy of the short story but the depth of characterization we associate with longer works. Little novels aren't leisurely, meandering journeys. They're drag races. You put the pedal to the floor and run your narrative right off the edge of the cliff. Live fast and leave a pretty corpse is a shitty objective for a human being but a pretty good plan for a story.

He knew, too, from things Vic had not told him, that she missed him and loved him with an intensity perhaps matched only by what she felt for her son.

Happy art is shallow. Sad art is deep.

We took what came the way it came. Least it was that way on the surface. You scratched us a little, though, you could find some jelly there pretty quick. We were the kind that found it hard to cry, but once we got started you best be ready for high water and the loading of animals two by two.

The truth is more complicated than that,"she said, "not as neat.

And from those ancestors, you will find a greatness buried deep within yourself that you did not even know existed." "You think?" Skah asked, breathlessly. "I know," said the croma.

I have loved since you. But when the new paint gets scratched, there you are underneath.

What I have is surface. Grooming, good genetics, whatever. Whether you've rolled out of bed an hour ago without having had a shower for three days, or you're wearing a designer suit, there is a deep, perfect beauty to you that takes my breath away.

There are twenty-five thousand, six hundred and twelve things you don't know about me. I'll tell you one each day." "That means it will take you seventy-plus years to know everything about me. When I turn one hundred, that will be the last one. Though I expect by then you'll know the very first and very last thing you need to know about me, the only one that matters." ~ Jon Forte

She chose the adjective deliberately. Handsome or sexy conveyed surface appeal. Beautiful addressed the whole package, inside and out.

Your have a purity I've lost, pet. But in some ways, the important ones, you're not naive. You understand the darkness without ever having been in it.

It's the space between them where everything important is, where it appears nothing resides. It defines the people, the music.

Govorom o anonimnome krš?anstvu Rahner je nastojao posredovati osje?aj za Božju širinu i za crkvenu usko?u.

In fact, the world is complex. To reflect that honestly, you usually need to focus on one thing for a significant amount of time, and you need space to speak at length. Very few things worth saying can be explained in 280 characters.

derinlemesine odaklanma biçiminin böyle bir h?zla ve bu ölçüde azald??? bir dünyan?n ba??na neler gelece?ini merak etmeye ba?lad?m. Dü?ünmenin en derin tabakas? gitgide daha az insan?n eri?ebil­di?i, opera veya voleybol gibi sadece ufak bir az?nl???n ilgisini çeken bir ?ey haline geldi?inde neler olacak acaba?