Quotes About Depth

There was no life above the surface anyway.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Her eyes glistened as they met his. In the dim light of the night, they looked a dark, dark gray, and achingly sad. He could imagine the entire world there, in the depths of her gaze. Everything he needed to know, everything he might ever need to know—it was there, within her.

Their moments together would form a short poem and not a long and lusty novel...

Karen sighed. "I know. I could never fall for the easy guys either." She looked at Clare. "It's always the difficult ones that get under your skin, isn't it?

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.

What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")

Oh sure. Because we always talk about deep down stuff.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions

The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed.

a tree is never just a tree, it is bigger and deeper and wiser than a girl like you will ever be.

Cuando llovía me entraba el agua hasta el alma

Pobre amor el que de pensamiento se alimenta.

Me basta mirarte para saber que con vos me voy a empapar el alma.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.

También hay ríos metafísicos, Horacio. Vos te vas a tirar a uno de esos ríos.

Están del otro lado, protegidos por el rompeolas del tiempo; sus cóleras y sus insatisfacciones pertenecen al mundo, a la política o al arte, nunca a ellos mismos, a su relación más profunda.

Nos conformamos con demasiado poco. Cuando los amigos se entienden bien entre ellos, cuando los amantes se entienden bien entre ellos, cuando las familias se entienden bien entre ellas, entonces nos creemos en armonía. Engaño puro, espejo para alondras. A veces siento que entre dos que se rompen la cara a trompadas hay mucho más entendimiento que entre los que están ahí mirando desde afuera.