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Quotes About Depth

My brain contains so much that is locked up and unreachable.
~ Doris Lessing
There are as many shades of being in love as there are graduations of colour on cards in the paint shop.
~ Doris Lessing
I am glad then,' said Catherine, 'that there was nothing between us, rather than mediocrity.' And from the homes … of Unicornes … 'There was kindness,' he said. 'And that was a great deal.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The beauty of worthy things is not in the face but in the backside, endearing more by their departure than their address.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
In Sevigny, there was something so deep and so dangerous that it could barely be felt. But there was no music. And there was no laughter.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
But the worse you express yourself these days the more profound people think you--though that's nothing new.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until—bang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating debris.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until—bang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating débris.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
~ Dorothy Parker
Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes they throw off like sparks... But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.
~ Dorothy West
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.
~ Douglas Adams
Come on," insisted Zaphod, "I've found a way in." "In?" said Arthur in horror. "Into the interior of the planet! An underground passage. The force of the whale's impact cracked it open, and that's where we have to go. Where no man has trod these five million years, into the very depths of time itself….
~ Douglas Adams
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
~ Douglas Coupland
Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
~ Douglas Coupland
My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.
~ Douglas Coupland
Personne n'est émotionnellement vide.
~ Douglas Coupland
The heart of a man is like deep water.
~ Douglas Coupland
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
~ Adrienne Rich
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread
~ Adrienne Rich
She looked just like a painting dying to speak.
~ Aeschylus
Very few of us are what we seem.
~ Agatha Christie
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
~ Agatha Christie
Do you not realize, Hastings, that each and everyone of us is a complete mystery with layers. We each try to judge each other, but nine times out of ten, we are wrong.
~ Agatha Christie