Quotes About Depth

I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

Humans are the most complicated, nuanced things that exist. We can't be reduced to labels or summed up with five traits - even if they are the Big Five.

Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

Daddy asks me what do you see in him? I answer, a hot spring on top of a cold mountain.

Every man, woman, and child is a story. We are all books waiting to be written. And inside the cover of each man, beneath the surface, we discover what makes him laugh and cry. Sometimes it's best to hold off on first impressions. That's what I've done with you.

There is a darkness deep in you A frightening magic I cling to

You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

Think you, dear reader, when that day comes, the most 'rapid abolitionist' will say-'Behold, I saw all this while on the earth?' Will he not rather say, 'Oh, who has conceived the breadth and depth of this moral malaria, this putrescent plague-spot?' Perhaps the pioneers in the slave's cause will be as much surprised as any to find that with all their looking, there remained so much unseen.

If you desire to gaze out over wide vistas, you do well to climb up to a high spot. But if you wish to gaze into the human heart, you must climb down and look from a low place.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

What river can flood over the mountains of your love?

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

O Lord my God, what a depth is that recess of Thy mysteries, and how far from it have the consequences of my transgressions cast me! Heal mine eyes, that I may share the joy of Thy light.

Wondrous depth of Thy words! whose surface, behold! is before us, inviting to little ones; yet are they a wondrous depth. O my God, a wondrous depth! It is awful to look therein; an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

People's lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what's underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

Truth is too multi-faceted to be contained in a five-line summary.