Quotes About Depth

what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection.

Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long time spans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth.

What we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions … Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth. Depth connected to your work in relationships also takes time. It takes energy. It takes long timespans. And it takes commitment. It takes attention, right? All of these things that require depth are suffering. It's pulling us more and more up onto the surface.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.

One is never satisfied with a portrait of a person that one knows.

This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

I seek the substantial in life.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior