Quotes About Depth

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art. ( video )

And for the first time I looked into his eyes. They were blue, not light blue, but a darker blue. Not so dark as sapphire blue, not so bright as china blue. They were romantically blue. Lyrically blue. They swam and I swam in them.

A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring

Le persone silenziose sono quelle che hanno le menti più rumorose.

Quiet people has the loudest minds.

The quietest people have the loudest minds

Quiet people have the loudest minds

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn't very interesting.

When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

I'm not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they're wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero's 'sharply intelligent blue eyes' and 'outthrust determined chin'.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

I believe there's another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I'm aware of.

It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

When you gaze into the abyss, Nietzsche wrote, the abyss also gazes into you.

Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

People are only rational on the surface.

El pesar auténtico es tan escaso como el amor auténtico.

Reality was deep, and it was far. It held many secrets and went on forever.

The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things.

You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow.

Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.