Quotes About Depth

Rilke said it again: "Go within, and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth … For the creative artist must be a world of his own and must find everything within himself and in nature, to which he has betrothed himself.

It is propitious and gratifying that Fordham University Press has decided to reissue these two volumes of The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce. When first published, in 1969, reviewers and commentators were taken with both the sweep and the depth of Royce's thought.

A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never.

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

She was in love with love. She couldn't do anything part way. She felt everything so deeply it was like the world was too much for her. Anytime she'd hear a story about some kid who had cancer or an old man who's wife died or dog even it was like it happened to her. Like she was missing the outer layer of skin that allowed people to get through the day without bleeding all the time. The world got to be too much for her.

Love opens us. Pain deepens us. Courage strengthens us. Joy enlightens us. Beauty renews us.

El pozo! Platero, ¡qué palabra tan honda, tan verdinegra, tan fresca, tan sonora! Parece que es la palabra la que taladra girando, la tierra oscura, hasta llegar al agua fría".

False joy, because you are merely in time, as they say, and not in the soul!

Mob of beings and things! --A true sadness, because you are really deep in the soul, as they say, not in time at all!

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

That is Mary: there are no suburbs to her personality: before you know it you are at her heart.

In simply thinking his name, an iceberg of frozen emotions loomed on my horizon. Everything I knew about icebergs I learned from the Titanic.: You saw the tip of the iceberg floating in the water but what you didn't see was all that lurked beneath the surface. I didn't want - and I couldn't afford - another shipwreck in my life.

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

For twas not into my ear you whispered, But into my heart. Twas not my lips you kissed, But my soul.

Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul

It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

If you are to write the truth, you must go beneath the surface into deeper, often darker waters where the light wavers and breathing is a matter of mindfulness.

Instead of an existentially grounded plastic and spatial experience, architecture has adopted the psychological strategy of advertising and instant persuasion; buildings have turned into image products detached from existential depth and sincerity.

Auf einmal begreift Dora, was zwischen Eltern und Kindern ist. Da findet eine Liebe statt, so abgrundtief und grenzenlos, dass sie das Fassungsvermögen des Verstandes übersteigt. Auf der Rückseite dieser Liebe wohnt die Angst, einander zu verlieren. Ebenso grenzenlos, ebenso abgrundtief. Das ist mehr als ein Mensch ertragen kann.

When you read a good book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it" —