Quotes About Depth

Souls are complicated things.

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained.

We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom.

Where love is deep much can be accomplished. —SHINICHI SUZUKI

I am more than I have shown you and more than you are willing to see. Let's work our love and know each other more fully.

Given to air alone, the cuts of this world burn. But when we dare to enter what is deep, the bruises we carry soften and glow. In truth, the more we accept our limitations and surrender to the depths below our woundedness, the more the vastness holds us up. There is no way to know this but to dive.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Our reading was subversive, and we knew it... I was now believing books more than I believed what I saw and heard... What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling... What I sought in books was a world (that)... actually matched the exaltation of the interior life.

How could he have not known this kind of love existed? How could he have thought he understood something about the way God loved his children when he had so vastly underestimated the depths of emotion a father feels for his child?

It's a long silence but far from empty.

On ne résume pas le mystère du flot d'une rivière par une poignée dérisoire de galets extirpés de son lit.

Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.

Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.

Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail. That was, after all, what happened when history was written; many, if not most, of the true facts discarded.

I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

Oh, Strange! It's always strange the heart is: only it's the skin we ever know.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics?

I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.

It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love that lay behind that cold mask.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.