Quotes About Depth

The eye is always drawn to light, but shadows have more to say.

We all have our shortcomings, it seems, though some are less visible than others.

Behind every aspect of the world is another aspect of the world.

Jamie is a funny mix. He has a sardonic side that can make him seem distant and almost harsh to people who don't know him well, but he's also very tender-hearted. (A

Sea, I am like you, filled with broken voices

Maybe its not a person we fall in love with so much as a distance, a depth , which that particular person happens to embody.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.

The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go to a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Les cÅ"urs des femmes sont comme ces petits meubles à secret, pleins de tiroirs emboîtés les uns dans les autres ; on se donne du mal, on se casse les ongles, et on trouve au fond quelque fleur desséchée, des brins de poussière – ou le vide !

Como si la plenitud del alma no se desborda algunas veces en las metáforas más vacías

Their great love, in which she lived totally immersed, seemed to be subsiding around her, like the river sinking into its bed...and she could see the mud at the bottom.

Un infini de passion peut tenir dans une minute.

Ženska srca su kao one male komode sa tajnim skrovištima, prepune fioka koje se uvlace jedne u druge; uzalud se ?ovek mu?i, polomi nokte, da bi na kraju, negde na dnu, pronašao neki sparušeni cvet, prašinu ili ništa!

On aime sa mère presque sans le savoir, et on ne prend conscience de toute la profondeur des racines de cet amour qu au moment de la séparation dernière.

Bisognerebbe amare, amare follemente, senza vedere ciò che si ama. Perché vedere è comprendere, e comprendere è disprezzare.

It makes me cry, I want to talk about something I am not sure I can talk about, I want to talk about the inside from the inside, I do not want to leave it I am so happy in the silky damp dark of the labyrinth and there is no thread

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Only the sombre philosophy of the Decadents could hold us, and this we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our penetrations.

Ma più meravigliosa dei racconti dei vecchi e dei libri, è la voce segreta dell'oceano. Blu, verde, grigio, bianco o nero; calmo, arruffato o tempestoso, l'oceano non è mai in silenzio. (La nave bianca)

Then a yell of utter, ultimate fright and stark madness wrenched from scores of human throats—a yell which came strong and clear despite the depth from which it must have burst; after which darkness and silence ruled all things.