Quotes About Depth

It is an unfortunate fact that no one has yet invented a Geiger counter which we can place over a man's heart and get a good read out of what he is really like inside. Time and time alone can accomplish that.

If godliness is not from deep within you, it is only a mask.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.

Die Metapher ist weit klüger als ihr Verfasser, und so sind es viele Dinge. Alles hat seine Tiefen. Wer Augen hat, der sieht alles in allem

Our silence is a black cavern.

A black cavern is our silence.

Her eyes changed and her face went soft. I saw something there that I'd seen that afternoon in the planetarium, a certain tenderness tinged with sorrow—a depth of feeling that seemed at odds with her youth and beauty, but that also seemed to mirror my own feelings, feelings I hardly recognized in myself until I saw them in her.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

More words, bigger hole, Your Furriness.

Un roman trebuie s? semene cu o strad? plin? cu necunoscuÈ›i, pe unde trec dou?, trei fiinÈ›e, nu mai mult, pe care s? le cunoÈ™ti pe de-a întregul.

A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth. Look at writers like Proust. They knew how to use minor characters to humiliate, to belittle their protagonists.

No one can ever truly know another human being.

Non era il piacere che gli aveva procurato a legarlo così intensamente a lei. Era qualcos'altro, che nasceva in una zona più sottile della carne, più calda dell'anima.

Some people feel more deeply than others. And I don't consider that a liability. In fact, those people tend to be even stronger. They have to be in order to survive.

Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.

An experience is richest not talked of.

Encontrar a alguien inagotable es simplemente la definición del amor.

To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain?

I have always attributed a great importance to eyes. How mysteriously expressive those damp orbs can be; the eyeball does not change and yet it is the window of the soul. And colour in eyes is, in its nature and inherence, quite unlike colour in any other substance. Mr Osmand had grey eyes, but his eyes were hard and speckled like Aberdeen granite, while Tommy's were clear and empty like light smoke.

He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way.