Quotes About Depth

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

It is hard to imagine how the psyche could generate so intense a level of emotion without some kind of exposure to an extraordinary experience as the template for that emotion.

Each time we explore Bach's music we feel as if we have traveled great distances to, and through, a remote but entrancing soundscape

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

so now you know my eyes are green - because of my shirt? You never looked into my soul to know how much in me is green...

we use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual ..

you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...

I don't want what other men see in you- you the you I want is invisible but it is the part of you I really love...

the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...

when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart

A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.

Perhaps—the insight came suddenly—perhaps love existed in its truest, deepest form when one partner saw into the soul of the other and never shrank from what was discovered there.

Es más fácil escuchar a alguien un rato e improvisar que sentarse día tras día y penetrar las capas de lo mundano y trivial en búsqueda de lo profundo.

La identidad es una capa de experiencia

El miedo siempre es algo escondido justo debajo de la piel...

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.

lumus the poignant humaness beneath the spectacle of society.

yu yi the longing to feel things intensely again.