Quotes About Depth

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

I want to be inside your darkest everything

And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe. (One can as well fall into height as into depth)

Who the deepest has thought loves what is most alive.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Every profound spirit needs a mask

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths.

79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you?

He wants to be known deep down, abysmally deep down, before he is capable of being loved at all; he dares to let himself be fathomed. He feels that his beloved is fully in his possession only when she no longer deceives herself about him, when she loves him just as much for his devilry and hidden insatiability as for his graciousness, patience, and spirituality.

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.