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Quotes About Depth

Por fora água parada, por dentro uma fogueira acesa.
~ Jorge Amado
Tudo não, Teodoro, tu não sabes que obscuro poço é o coração da gente.
~ Jorge Amado
Baudelaire had gone further; he had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Viví en el monstruo y le conozco las entrañas
~ Jose Marti
Mientras mas honda la herida, Es mi canto mas hermoso. While more deeper is the wound The more beautiful the art.
~ Jose Marti
Tipul uman pe care-l prefer?m în cel?lalt schiÅ£eaz? profilul propriei noastre inimi. Iubirea este un elan care se iveÈ™te din cea mai adânc? subteran? a persoanei noastre È™i, ajungând la faÅ£a vizibil? a vieÅ£ii, târ??te aluvionar alge È™i scoici din abisul l?untric. Un bun naturalist, studiind filiaÅ£ia acestor materiale, poate reconstrui fondul pelagic din care au fost smulse.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Cuántos hay que parecen hombres y sólo valen por las posiciones alcanzadas en las piaras mediocráticas! Vistos de cerca, examinadas sus obras, son menos que nada, valores negativos. Sombras.
~ José Ingenieros
Procuremos inventar pasiones nuevas o reproducir las viejas con pareja intensidad.
~ José Lezama Lima
la grandeza del hombre consiste en que puede asimilar lo que le es desconocido. Asimilar, en la profundidad, es dar respuesta.
~ José Lezama Lima
there are more profound truths than one finds in history
~ Jose Rizal
In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
~ Joseph Brodsky
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
~ Joseph Conrad
We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness
~ Joseph Conrad
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
~ Joseph Joubert
La France vivant, saignante, est toute dans les profondeurs. C'est vers l'ombre qu'elle tourne son visage inconnu et vrai. Peuple que, dans les catacombes de la révolte, forme sa lumière et trouve sa propre loi.
~ Joseph Kessel
We read not to escape, but to go deeper into life.
~ Joseph Monninger
Die Schatten waren eben Körper geworden und warfen eigene Schatten.
~ Joseph Roth
Er war so einfach und untadelig wie seine Konduitenliste, und nur der Zorn, der ihn manchmal ergriff, hätte einen Kenner der Menschen ahnen lassen, daß auch in der Seele des Hauptmanns Trotta die nächtlichen Abgründe dämmerten, in denen die Stürme schlafen und die unbekannten Stimmen namenloser Ahnen.
~ Joseph Roth
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
~ Ernest Brammah Smith
I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.
~ Ernst Junger
This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.
~ Ernst Junger
La faccia umana è la superficie di un pianeta
~ Erri De Luca
The reason for this was not that the subject was simple enough to be explained without mathematics, but rather that it was much too involved to be fully accessible to mathematics.
~ Erwin Schrodinger