Quotes About Depth

We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man.

Sentimentality, Mrs Revel. You know it is. Love isn't a drug that you take to blind you to your surroundings - you can make it that, yes, but it's a pity - love can be a lot more than that.

She is in love—heart, soul, and body—and she is not of those who love lightly and often.

Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him.

But the bit I liked best was where it said it's impossible to define love because it takes so many forms and is so complicated.

There is a darkness behind all dances of color.

You may see me as the Skin, but I am the One that lives Within!

Man is so busy creating cosmetics for the skin, that he has not Discovered, what lies Within!

Simply In Depth......

For Freud, the semiotic trajectory of the dreamwork determines a phantom architectonics: a cartography of nowhere, an architecture of nothing (or the unconscious), and an archaeology of imaginary depth that always takes place on the surface. As a practice and sensibility, psychoanalysis remains attuned to superficiality; it constitutes a search for depth on the surface of things.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

You picture an audience and think, What are they already aware of? Where should I start? How deep should I go? What are they actually eager to know? If I start too far in, will I be using concepts they don't really understand?

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

Getting to the root of a matter is key.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can't be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper

I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

Madness, yes . . . but heartfelt madness.

Chiku felt something very close to vertigo, a dizzy sort of perception that she had only just begun to grasp the vertical depth of a very long life, the sense of how far it plumbed the past. A life that went down like a lift-shaft, each floor containing an ordinary life's worth of love and loss, adventure and disappointment, dreams and ruins, joy and sorrow.

Molly Ringwald's characters always had a complex personal life, and I appreciated that.

I live more than a double life, honestly. I have so many personalities, I live more than a double life.