Quotes About Depth

Do people look at me and see horror lurking just beneath this tattered skin? Or is it the reverse? Do they see that something is missing? the spark of divinity that makes a life human? I am a void, a chaotic abyss, that would swallow up the world.

I knew him the least well, understood him scarcely at all, felt uneasy in his presence, and yet perhaps in a strange way loved him more deeply than any.

I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd glimpsed that world before, but I'd never known how vast and malignant it might be.

Maybe it's an artistic genius thing. People who go so deep inside themselves, especially when they're working, that they seem like sleepwalkers when they emerge. Traces of unconsciousness seem to cling to them, lending them an otherworldly sheen.

Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

I want to learn how to look deep to see what people are really like. I want to be the kind of person who plunges past the surface and seeks to know the inner thoughts of the people I am around.

Her life had not been long enough for her to know the whole of herself, it had not been long enough or wide.

books have souls

I want full-on emotional, sexual, spiritual passion—not the torments of fights and jealousies, but the power of engaging deeply, from the bottom of my heart, with my lover's heart, with lots of ebb and flow in both passion and friendship, periods of great agreement and great distance, but always coming back to each other, to self, to commitment, together.

Here was a path that led you, not away from strong emotion but directly toward it; one that applauded the ability to feel deeply—not for its dramatic qualities but for its vividness and intelligence.

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

Su cara toma una expresión especial cuando se concentra. Su expresión habitualmente relajada es reemplazada por algo más intenso y lejano que sugiere todo un mundo encerrado dentro de él.

Eyes so black they seem all pupils.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

A complicated life is an interesting life.

Like my soul is wearing thin.

stories in this book represent only the tip of the iceberg.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

One of the reasons I love horror so much is - when it's done well - you can keep peeling away the layers and see something new every time.

I have a dark and sexy side, and I sometimes have a feminine, elegant side.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

In order to get a note out, I have to dig deep, and I mean that on an emotional level. To physically sing, I have to get somewhere deep before I can do it.

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.