Quotes About Depth

Con todo, ni siquiera yo puedo crear un personaje imaginado que resulte tan unidimensional como el lector corriente

These books are a great deal harder to read than they were to write.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

Of course,' I said, 'you know her so much better than I ever did.' In some ways,' he said gloomily, and I knew he was thinking of the very ways in which I had known her the best.

Se vorbeÈ™te despre mil? cu mare uÈ™urin??, ca È™i despre iubire, când de fapt este o pasiune pustiitoare È™i ambigu? pe care atât de puÈ›ini sunt capabili s-o resimt?.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

One never knows another human being;

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

A guy can love a million women. But a man, a man loves one woman a million ways.

It's easy to forget that inside her cool and placid exterior is a human being. Not nice to think, I

Were they—were all of them, Alice too?—so sophisticated, so counterfeit in their emotions, that they operated one or two steps removed from the substance of things?

Ah, to be able to read both the surface and that which is below the surface!

Good is only half the truth, and truth is only half the story.

There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

Her eyes were the color of the sea if the sea were perfect.

through his thick, black hair.

I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.

Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness and toughness of hard rock, and the depth which always makes you feel that they are in the midst of saying something. They have never impressed me as being kitsch.