Quotes About Depth

Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.

The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

How deeply (beyond words) he speaks to us about the mysteries of our common human nature. And how unstrained and easy his greatness is.

CERTAIN oddities about Israel: Because people think so hard here, and so much, and because of the length and depth of their history, this sliver of a country sometimes seems quite large. Some dimension of mind seems to extend into space.

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

No other man I'd held in my arms--and now, not even I--had blood this pure.

But I'm pretty on the inside.

Parents need real answers. It seems that many parenting books have been written by authors who have compliant children. They believe that by following a few steps, children will turn out great. Unfortunately, many parents find these books superficial, lacking the depth needed to provide significant change in their families.

I have spent the day well just looking and looking. It is the same in art as in life. The deeper one penetrates, the broader grows the view.

Zarea e ca si viitorul! In fata sufletului nostru sta un tot urias si nelamurit in care simtirea noastra se pierde ca si privirea, iar noi dorim plini de ardoare sa ne lasam cuprinsi cu voluptate de un unic, mare si splendid sentiment. Si cand alergam intr-acolo, cand acolo devine aici, totul e la fel ca mai inainte si ne simtim saraci si marginiti, si sufletul nostru tanjeste dupa mangaierea care a pierit.

Ey varl???n?n derinli?ine asla eremedi?im Yüce Tanr?'m! Ruhum seninle doluyken çoktan beridir neden senden uzak durdum?.. Beni yan?na al! Daha fazla bekletme! Katlan?lmaz bir özlemle tutu?an ruhumun art?k gücü tükendi.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

But authentic worship also has depth.

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought.

But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.

It was at the highest point in the arc of a bridge that I became aware suddenly of the depth and bitterness of my feelings about modern life, and of the profoundness of my yearning for a more vivid, simple, and peaceable world.

An edifice is more than a house and less than a City, though it may resemble a house from the outside and a city from within. From without, an edifice may seem self-contained and finite; from within, it may well extend beyond lines of vision, both spatially and temporally. In almost every possible way, edifices manifest a principle central to the description of most physical structures in fantasy: there is always more to them than meets the eye.

Some words can only be spoken to those for whom we feel passionately and deeply, just as some silences can only be shared by lovers.

His was a psychological and emotional disturbance of untold, awful depth, mundane and yet tragic in that very ordinariness.

He was a locked box inside which tempests roiled. He was a man enshadowed by himself.

I think we are Somehow dealing not with a man but with a geography.