Quotes About Depth

God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.

A rainbow of soil is under our feet; red as a barn and black as peat. It's yellow as lemon and white as the snow; bluish gray. So many colors below. Hidden in darkness as thick as the night; The only rainbow that can form without light. Dig you a pit, or bore you a hole, you'll find enough colors to well rest your soil.

What is blacker than the 'raven'? Answer; His Feathers:

It has duration. Can it not, itself, be split in two? And split again, and again, and again, divided and subdivided ad infinitum, with no stopping point? Does it not, itself, contain an abyss? The fabric of ordinary time is all hollow beneath, opening into void below void, gulf behind gulf. Every moment you care to define proving on examination to be a close-packed sheaf of finer, and yet finer ones without end; finer, in fact, always and forever, than whatever your last guess was.

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands. "Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957

Face-to-face life is all too alive and too formidably rich in meanings. Too intense.As with the sun, we should stay out of it as much as possible.

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

The chart will show water depth in most larger creeks, and anywhere you note good depths of five feet right against the shore approaching a junction of two creeks or a creek and a river, you can bet there will be linesiders hanging around.

They can only burrow a few metres deep.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I'm joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I'm glad I'm the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.

Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.

Remember: You're the girl with nothing below the surface. Scratch it and what do you find? More surface.

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Music is an outburst of the soul.