Quotes About Depth

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

There is a lot of salt in the sea- enough to bury every bit of land on the planet to a depth of about five hundred feet. p280

At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18, some no more than perhaps once in five hundred years. As The Economist has put it: 'The key to long life, it seems, is not to do too much19.

The distance from the surface of Earth to the middle is 6,370 kilometres, which isn't so very far. It has been calculated that if you sunk a well to the centre and dropped a brick down it, it would take only forty-five minutes for it to hit the bottom

He likes to wear bow ties so we'll all know how intelligent he is. Personally, I've seen Post-it notes with more depth.

I'd never known intimacy so raw and cathartic.

Every life has layers, Peter. Everyone has things they don't talk about. It doesn't make them less real. It might make them more precious.

In a while, one of us will go up to bed and the other one will follow. Then we will slip below the surface of the night into miles of water, drifting down and down to the dark, soundless bottom until the weight of dreams pulls us lower still, below the shale and layered rock, beneath the strata of hunger and pleasure, into the broken bones of the earth itself, into the marrow of the only place we know.

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

The human heart is hard to grasp.

The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence: Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.

People tell me it's a sin To know and feel too much within

The evening was at once intimate and infinite.

He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities.

I love you beyond mind or memory or measure.

Reality was getting too dense.

Camminare verso la verità, nella verità, voleva dire non avere alcun timore di entrare in una dimensione più profonda, quella dell'amore che niente pretende, niente separa, cieco davanti ogni forma di giudizio.

Razumevanje in površnost, nista odvisna od let, ampak od poti, ki jo kdo prehodi.

Perché per amare qualcosa, bisogna prima conoscerla. Può la complessità di un uomo giungere a conoscere la complessità di un altro uomo? La risposta è evidente: assolutamente no. Dunque non si può amare davvero perché non si può conoscere veramente.

La verdadera escritura se encuentra en otro lugar, en las profundidades, en el núcleo del fuego de la tierra, en el corazón, en las tinieblas del hombre. Procede y se mantiene en equilibrio entre esos dos extremos. Por eso cansa, agota, daña la salud.

To dive beneath the surface feels like entering the Earth's vast, dreaming subconscious.

Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.

The world would see the beauty of the packaging, but only I knew the man inside it and how precious he was. His intimate smiles and his deep husky laugh, the gentleness of his touch and the ferocity of his passion were all reserved for me.