Quotes About Depth

My heart was an onion making me cry.

She was honey-sweet and perfect... But that was just the surface layer; deeper there was more: darkness and sadness and pain

Seeds send down a runner beneath the surface. Before making an appearance above ground, the seed first grows beneath the surface. In the same way, we must first go deep in order to find the source of living water to sustain our lives. We must go deep into the Word of G-D lest we build ourselves on a foundation of shifting sand and get blown over in the first storm that comes into our lives. We must first grow beneath the surface.

Wer nur die Hälfte liebt der liebt dich nicht halb sondern gar nicht

Whenever the energy-charge of unconscious contents becomes excessive, they discharge themselves from the unconscious and are projected.

The animating principle of mana, the effect of magic, the magical efficacy of spirits, and the reality of collective ideas, dreams, and ordeals are all governed by the laws of this interior reality which modern depth psychology is trying to bring to the surface.

The inside "expresses" itself by way of the symbol.

As in poetry, so in mythology, the figures must submit to the same dual interpretation.

Though the anima figure also has transpersonal characteristics, she is closer to the ego, and contact with her is not only possible, but is the source of all fruitfulness.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

something in the world it's not expressed in words ----- just feel it ......

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

A saccharine, easy grace is no grace at all.

If you ask me, it's perfectly natural that when we feel so much, when our entire world begins to revolve around someone else, that's when we turn the most into ourselves. We're sure that no one else can possibly understand what it's like to love so deeply, aren't we?

that was only because he was mere

I don't knock films or television shows, but they nail you down to a kind of externality. Nothing is going to be communicated which demands a softer approach--or let's say a more insidious approach--into the soul.

What do you see when you look at me like that?" she asked. I didn't have a good answer, so I went for honesty instead. "I don't know," I said. "Everything. That's what I see—everything." "You think I'm that huge, then?" she said. "I am woman, I contain multitudes. All shall look upon me and despair." "Shall I compare thee to a giant squid," I said. "Thou art more lovely and less tentacled.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.

I wish all difficult poems were profound. Honk if you wish all difficult poems were profound.

Sima made a space for me to hear that there were depths beneath what I was saying that I hadn't sounded yet.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

People who use only their eyes do not SEE. People who use only their ears do not HEAR. It is more difficult to love than to die. It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love. The heart is bigger than a mountain. One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mightly plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls.

Her sigh was full of despair, but at the bottom of her lungs, at the depth of her breath's expulsion, there was also hope, waiting like sleep at the end of even the most torrid day.