Quotes About Depth

The thing that eats the heart is mostly heart.

Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.

extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.

But love truly becomes love only when, no longer an embryo developing painfully in the darkness of the body, it ventures to confess itself with lips and breath. However hard it tries to remain a chrysalis, a time comes when the intricate tissue of the cocoon tears, and out it falls, dropping from the heights to the farthest depths, falling with redoubled force into the startled heart.

je mehr sich einer begrenzt, um so mehr ist er andererseits dem Unendlichen nah; gerade solche scheinbar Weltabseitigen bauen in ihrer besonderen Materie sich termitenhaft eine merkwürdige und durchaus einmalige Abbreviatur der Welt.

Du warst mir- wie soll ich es Dir sagen? jeder einzelne Vergleich ist zu gering- Du warst eben alles, mein ganzes Leben.

Hiçbir ÅŸeyin benim için gerçekleÅŸmediÄŸi, ama yine de her ÅŸeyin bana dahil olduÄŸu duygusunu ta??yordum yaln?zca; ilgisiz kalsam da, çok derin ve çok gerçek ÅŸeyler tad?yor olmak müthiÅŸ mutluluk veren bir duyguydu, ruhumun en canl? kayna??n? oluÅŸturur, tan?mad???m yerlerde ÅŸehvet gibi üstüme çökerdi.

Seul le malheur procure une vision large et profonde des réalités de ce monde.

Mais l'amour ne devient vraiment réel qu'à partir du moment où il cesse de planer, douloureux et sombre, à l'état embryonnaire, au plus profond des entrailles, où il ose se nommer, s'avouer par le souffle et les lèvres.

Ä°nsan?n kendini açmas? yeterliydi, insandan insana canl? bir ak?? baÅŸl?yordu hemen, yükseklerden derinlere iniyor, derinlerden tekrar sonsuzluÄŸa yükseliyordu

wie ein Taucher sogar, der schon ahnt, dass das Seil nach der Außenwelt abgerissen ist und er nie zurückgeholt werden wird aus der lautlosen Tiefe.

Solo quien conoce las profundidades, conoce la vida completa. Solo el retroceso da al hombre toda su energía para avanzar. El genio creador necesita esta forzada soledad temporal para medir desde la lejanía de la exclusión el horizonte y la altura de su verdadera tarea.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kinds of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people, who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry.

fundamental difference in approach can make the short stories of Stella Gibbons seem somewhat obvious in their tone. And yet this is misleading: these stories are not obvious at all; they simply adhere to a storytelling convention that has been lost sight of in our quest for greater depth of characterization and psychological insight.

as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand things at a depth I can reach in no other way, pushes me to write and go on writing, even when my wants—for an easier or more sociable life, or one less exposed and fraught—are certainly well known to my rational mind. p.293

It is correct (and a great improvement) to begin to think of the two parties to the interaction as two eyes, each giving a monocular view of what goes on and, together, giving a binocular view in depth. This double view is the relationship.

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

There are many levels of truth.

The truth is always multiplex.

The truth is dark under your eyelids.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.