Quotes About Depth

a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Make no mistake, the woman (Rosa) had a heart. She had a bigger one than people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving.

I'm not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing, Nothing goes away.

All hearts float in their own deep oceans of no light, wetblack and glimmering, their four mouths gulping like fish. Hearts are said to pound: this is to be expected, the heart's regular struggle against being drowned.

I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes. 'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.

Falling in love, I said. Falling into it, we all did then, one way or another. How could we have made such light of it? Sneered even. As if it was trivial for us, a frill, whim. It was, on the contrary, heavy going.

Even guppies have their opacities.

We hugged her to us, she was with us in secret, a giggle; she was lava beneath the crust of daily life.

If you are generous with your heart, you have no idea of the depth & breadth of love's reach.

The same is true for God, and I long to experience that depth of love in my relationship with Christ.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine.

People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we'd all fit inside some multiple-choice question.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.

I'm not 100% nice all the time, so I find it quite hard to be really pleasant.