Quotes About Depth

Lately whenever I'd scratched somebody's surface I'd turned up a ghost story.

Eyes can pierce a skull.

Storm in a shot glass type of thing. And Angus was the opposite. A whole ocean, dark and chill.

when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

we have a way of talking about beauty as though beauty were only skin deep. But real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness in order to understand what beauty is.-Barry Lopez, Interview with Bill Moyers, Journal, April 30, 2010

A person sometimes believes she's seen all the way to the bottom of the well of human stupidity, and a reminder that that well apparently has no bottom is sometimes useful.

Sometimes... real love is silent as well as blind.

It's really just paint. I muse on that, sometimes, Jamie. When I can't sleep. How a little paint can make shallow water seem deep.

To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

No one has ever loved me As deeply as you. No one has truly shown me What love could be like until now: Not pretty or safe or easy But more than I ever knew. Love within reason - That isn't love. And I've learned that from you..

Encompassing sixty million square miles, the Pacific Ocean is the largest and oldest body of water on our planet, and with an average depth of fourteen thousand feet, it is also the deepest, possessing some of the most biologically diverse creatures ever to inhabit the Earth. The Pacific is all that remains of the Panthalassa, an ancient

People living deeply," wrote poet and diarist Anaïs Nin, "have no fear of death.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

My love runs deeper than the wounds.

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.

My love, i would like even more; to be an ocean if you are the wave; to be a wave, if you are the ocean.

Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.