Quotes About Depth

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

Ses yeux sont veloutés comme seuls les yeux sombres le sont, or les siens sont d'eau morte et de vase mêlées, rien n'y passe en ce moment qu'une douceur ensommeillée.

Elle pourrait répondre qu'elle ne l'aime pas. Elle ne dit rien. Tout à coup elle sait, là, à l'instant, elle sait qu'il ne la connaît pas, qu'il ne la connaîtra jamais, qu'il n'a pas les moyens de connaître tant de perversité.

La musique me transporte dans un monde où la douleur ne cesse pas d'exister, mais s'élargit, se tranquillise, devient tout à la fois plus calme et plus profonde, comme un torrent qui se transforme en lac. (p. 81)

Peu d'hommes aiment longtemps le voyage, ce bris perpétuel de toutes les habitudes, cette secousse sans cesse donnée à tous les préjugés. Mais je travaillais à n'avoir nul préjugé et peu d'habitudes. J'appréciais la profondeur délicieuse des lits, mais aussi le contact et l'odeur de la terre nue, les inégalités de chaque segment de la circonférence du monde.

Aucune caresse va jusqu'à l'âme.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.

you dig deep enough into your mind, and deep enough into mine, the picture is the same: at the bottom of it all, what we are is love.

Life is deep, but our current politics is shallow. The history of this country is like the stuff of great art and philosophy, while our current politics is more on the level of gossip magazines. It is shallow and tawdry, an unworthy vehicle for grappling with the meaning of what we are going through. We need to think more deeply if we're to create more powerfully. We need to focus on a broader understanding of the American story and commit ourselves to rewriting it.

You are about to embark upon a specific journey, and as with everything else in your life, you have two choices: you can play it shallow or you can play it deep.