Quotes About Depth

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.

Man is not satisfied with just being man . He wants to be everything, all creatures, and still remain himself. Man has unfathomable depths to his goodness and his evil, his intelligence and his ignorance--he is a dark region of wells and wishes to drink at them all.'-- O-kolkol

It is always important to look beyond a pleasant visage.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons—it was systemic and it was complete.

Not long ago the forests were our depth, a sun-dappled underworld, an inexhaustible timeless source. Now they are vanishing.

allowing the Word and Spirit of Christ to enter into one's depths and begin to transform each component of the human being to Christlikeness-under the direction of a regenerate will and with constant overtures of grace from God (Willard 2002:42).

I can recover my calm by living the metaphors of the ocean.

All important words, all the words marked for grandeur by a poet, are keys to the universe, to the dual universe of the Cosmos and the depths of the human spirit.

Le feu. Il est l'ultra-vivant. Il est intime et universel. Il vit dans notre cœur. Dans le ciel. Il monte des profondeurs de la substance et s'offre comme un amour.

The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche, the lesser psychological causes of which have not been sufficiently investigated. Nor

the unconscious cannot be civilized.

Until then, in the depth of those eyes, all I had seen was the promise of death; it was the first time I saw the promise of life

Maskemin ard?nda gizlenen bu aÅŸk? yaln?zca sen görebilirsin...

There is the relationship between the two of you as real people, and there is the relationship between the two shadows. The shadow is the part of us we do not know about. It is the hidden repository of all our old feelings and patterns. You come into the relationship bringing a shadow with you, as does the other person. If you and the other person do not look into what these shadows contain, your relationship will be between two shadows instead of the two of you as real people.

He paused, and I knew he was delving again in a mind larger and darker than even his great library.

Gurloes was one of the most complex men I have known, because he was a complex man trying to be simple. Not a simple, but a complex man's idea of simplicity.

As children we have no appreciation of scenery because, having not yet stored similar scenes in our imagination, with their attendant emotions and circumstances, we perceive it without psychic depth. I now looked at the cloudcrowned summits with my

As children we have no appreciation of scenery because, having not yet stored similar scenes in our imagination, with their attendant emotions and circumstances, we perceive it without psychic depth.

It's not about food. It's never about food. And it's not even about feelings. It's about what's below them. What's in between them. What's beyond them.

Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht.

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Don't judge a book by its cover.