Quotes About Depth

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

Bookman isn't a stable man. He has a lot of problems that run very, very deep. But he was really good at giving head.

What I like about you is that I've never met anybody like you in my life. You've got depth and you're funny and you have a sweet, good soul. A breeze from the water passes over us, And I admire your strength.

What I am certain of is that there's something wonky going on beneath the surface of what we call reality. Things are not as they appear. They are much, much more.

Was it a universal truth that the closer you looked at something, the more you would see but the less you would understand what you where looking at?

There is a complexity to life that I often overlook. There is a depth of thinking, there is a richness. I am skating on the surface.

I'm tired of living in the shallow end of the pool.

A thing is not high if one can reach it; it is not great if one can reason it; it is not deep if one can see its bottom.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome

To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've got to care about the characters. You've got to understand the characters and you've got to be interested. If the characters are interesting, you're half-way home.

The fact that at the core of emotional disorders is the birth trauma, a process of life and death, explains the intensity and depth that otherwise would be incomprehensible.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

I hoped you would know without needing to be told. His eyes held hers; his chest swelled as he drew in a steadying breath. God-and half the ton-know I love you. He searched her eyes, then added his voice deepening, Unreservedly, without restraint, far more completely, deeply, madly than I suspect is at all wise.

This deep not-knowing, in this case the Second Patriarch's inability to find his anguished mind, takes the notion of agnosticism down to another depth. One might call it a contemplative depth. Such deep agnostic metaphors are likewise found in such terms as wu hsin (no mind), and wu nien (no thought), as well as in the more popular "don't know mind" of the Korean Zen master Seung Sah?

people, with their faults and ambiguities and weaknesses, and plumbing.

It's not a movie kind of love either.

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.

The good poem simultaneously reveals and conceals. It is in this sense that it is mysterious. The not so good poem is often mysterious only by virtue of its concealment. Or it wears exotic clothing to hide its essential plainness.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow