Quotes About Depth

When things are really good, really easy it's not cool for me.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

It was the kind of love you have for someone because you'll die inside if you don't love something.

Cuanto más te acercas a lo esencial, menos puedes nombrarlo.

Not his real name, darling, but my own name for him. I never thought it could be like this. I never thought one could be so close, and yet so different to a single human being. He is everything I've never been, and yet I love him more than any person or anything I've ever known.

The black sky was a poem beyond meaning.

Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.

The mother sensed her daughter's animal superiority and instinctively condemned it out of hand, the unforgettable depth of her fucking, her way of coming like a continent!

En quelques mois ça change une chambre, même quand on n'y bouge rien. Si vieilles, si déchues qu'elles soient, les choses, elles trouvent encore, on ne sait où, la force de vieillir. Tout avait changé déjà autour de nous. Pas les objets de place, bien sûr, mais les choses elles-mêmes, en profondeur.

artists look at what is, what they can see, and they draw it. Poets never trust the surface. They learn to look beneath, and to trust what they can't see.

poetry requires a different kind of view, one where you look inside.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

I like a man whose eyes say more than his lips, thought Valancy.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but them it wouldn't be half so interesting.

It is not every day one sees a soul-even of a poem

The difficult thing here is not, to dig down to the ground; no, it is to recognize the ground that lies before us as the ground. For the ground keeps on giving us the illusory image of a greater depth, and when we seek to reach this, we keep on finding ourselves on the old level. Our disease is one of wanting to explain.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

In order to know an object, I must know not its external but all its internal qualities.

Ah che tentazione di prenderle il viso tra le mani per costringerla a guardare nell'abisso di due occhi ben altri da quelli da cui voleva essere guardata!

The exhumation of your soul will be successful only if you dig one deep hole rather than a lot of shallow ones.

Words are sometimes too small, too confining, to convey the depth of thought and strength of emotions. How does a whale communicate love, hope, fear, or joy?

The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.