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Quotes About Depth

But that is another matter. There is really too much to say.
~ Henry James
He had none of that wish to appear deep which is at the bottom of most forms of fatuity; he was perfectly willing to pass for decently superficial; he only aspired to be continuous. When you were not suitably shallow this presented difficulties; but he would have assented to the proposition that you must be as suitable as you can and that a high use of subtlety is in consuming the smoke of your inner fire. THE FIRE WAS THE GREAT THING, NOT THE CHIMNEY.
~ Henry James
Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people's imagination.
~ Henry James
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.
~ Henry Miller
Though I've known you a short time, I feel I know you intimately. Not your life but you, your emotions, your dreams, your aspirations.
~ Henry Miller
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~ Henry Miller
Plânge si vei g?si un milion de crocodili care s? plâng? cu tine. Lumea e sc?ldat? în lacrimi...Bucuria e întemeiat? pe ceva prea profund pentru a fi înteles si comunicat. A fi bucuros înseamn? a fi un nebun într-o lume de strigoi tristi
~ Henry Miller
Live deep instead of fast.
~ Henry Seidel Canby
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs
~ Herman Melville
My body is but the lees of my better being.
~ Herman Melville
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
~ Herman Melville
Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.
~ Herman Melville
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
~ Herman Melville
On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.
~ Herman Melville
Where the deepest word ends, there music begins with its supersensuous and all-confounding intimations.
~ Herman Melville
Man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.
~ Herman Melville
Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
~ Herman Melville
I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.
~ John Mellencamp
Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.
~ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Yes, I think I am like the sea. I appear calm on the surface, but there's a lot going on within. Many a times, I may not react to certain things, but that doesn't mean that I don't care or I don't have emotions.
~ Atif Aslam
Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.
~ Rufus Sewell
You have to kind of lose yourself and not think about just how brave Mulan is. Yes, I am playing a hero, so we need to bring out that side, but I think every human being is complex, and complex is so beautiful. And that's where the energy of the character is.
~ Liu Yifei
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
~ Lesley Garrett