Quotes About Depth

Love is deep spiritual affection in two souls but one spirit.

In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.

A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading.

T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper.

complication without depth

to how deep the author wants to go into a topic

his conversation becomes mere chitchat around the point, never getting to the central idea.

The sea gets deeper as you go further into it

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity.

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity. And I could take advantage of what people later pathologized as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) by using natural stimulation as a main driver to scholarship.

Never cross a river if it is on average four feet deep

Yo tampoco te quiero, es imposible quererte. ¿Y sabes por qué? Porque no tienes valor para ir hasta el fondo de las cosas. No eres más que un tapón de corcho, eso es lo que eres. Nadie te quiere porque tú no quieres a nadie.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

The chasm was merely one of the orifices of that pit of blackness that lies beneath us..

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual.

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual. What does one often hear from people who are in love? "He (she) understands me as I have never felt understood before.

The union two abysses does not produce a height.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.

Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.

And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still lower depth came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water.

Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment comes when it is doomed to vanish into thin mist!

The closer you penetrated to the substance of his mind, the sounder it appeared.