Quotes About Depth

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

No man has ever expressed his happiness nor his sorrow in the same intensity he experienced! ~ ramana pemmaraju

There is far more to us than what we live.

Love can be calculated by the soul

Maybe you only get one chance at meeting somebody who really gets inside you, wakes corners of your mind and heart that you didn't know were asleep.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every time, because hip is short-term. Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.

Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don't look attentively, if you don't go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.

But in God's shadow I had been dazzled by the detour, amazed at the fraternity, and flabbergasted by the depth that comes from simplicity, from serving in a village that was shabby, green, and pulsing with life.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Even though we think we see the world so fully, what we are receiving is really just hints

If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

The camera looks into your soul.

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

I am not one to seek simple causes.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

I'd like someone who challenges me, someone who is more beautiful in the inside than they are on the outside.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.