Quotes About Depth

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

apology. "It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I'm not the same person I was. I'm fucked up." I give her a sideways glance. "I am," she says. "You haven't even scratched the surface." "I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or another.

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality.

No tree can grow to Heaven," adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, "unless its roots reach down to Hell.

No tree can grow to Heaven," adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, "unless its roots reach down to Hell."134

Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder. That is because you are now genuinely involved in making things better. You are minimizing the unnecessary suffering. You are encouraging those around you, by example and word. You are constraining the malevolence in your own heart and the hearts of others.

brilliantly & terribly

No tree can grow to Heaven," adds the ever-terrifying Carl Gustav Jung, psychoanalyst extraordinaire, "unless its roots reach down to Hell."134 Such a statement should give everyone who encounters it pause. There was no possibility for movement upward, in that great psychiatrist's deeply considered opinion, without a corresponding move down. It is for this reason that enlightenment is so rare.

Are you so sure that your partner would be unhappy if more of you rose to the surface? The femme fatale and the anti-hero are sexually attractive for a reason….

If you truly love someone, it can seem a deep form of betrayal to stay integrated and healthy, in essence, in their absence or sadly waning presence. What does that ability indicate, after all, about the true depths of your love? If you can witness their demise and survive the loss, does that not imply that the bond was shallow and temporary, and even replaceable? If you were truly bonded, should not it destroy you (as it sometimes does)?

There's nothing that requires you to think more deeply than to write a book. (Interview with Chris Williamson)

Simplesmente não somos ateus nas nossas ações e são as nossas ações que refletem mais precisamente as nossas crenças mais profundas – aquelas que estão implícitas, impregnadas no Ser, sob as nossas apreensões supérfluas e as atitudes articuláveis e do autoconhecimento superficial.

the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.

Every person is too complex to know themselves completely, and we all contain wisdom that we cannot comprehend.

You positively need to be occupied with something weighty, deep, profound, and difficult.