Quotes About Depth

Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.

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

Shakespeare has surface beneath surface to an immeasurable depth, adapted to the plummet-line of every reader; his works present many phases of truth, each with a scope large enough to fill a contemplative mind. Whatever you seek in him you will surely discover, provided you seek truth. There is no exhausting the various interpretations of his symbols, and a thousand years hence a world of new readers will possess a whole library of new books, as we ourselves do, in these volumes old already.

They had looked love with eyes that conveyed the holy secret from the depths of one soul into the depths of the other, as if it were too sacred to be whispered.

It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine.

I love you, Risa, he says. Every last part of me.

There's no telling how far down it goes," the captain says, the left side of his mustache twitching like the tail of a rat. "Fall into that unknowable abyss, and you'll be counting the days before you reach bottom.

We'd see, we'd hear, we'd feel so deeply that we might never resurface. So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

He looks at me with his one seeing eye, as wary of me as I am of him. His eye is bright and alert. More than alert, it seems to peer deeper than eyes usually do. I know that means he's "off.

I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine. But, oh, how I long to be understood.

Je ne suis pas le Styx pour t'embrasser neuf fois.

Es hermosa y más que hermosa: es sorprendente. Lo negro en ella abunda; y es nocturno y profundo cuanto inspira. Sus ojos son de astros en que centellea vagamente el misterio, y su mirada ilumina como el relámpago: es una explosión en las tinieblas.

Asombrosos viajeros! ¡Cuántas historias nobles leemos en vuestros ojos profundos como lar mar! Mostradnos en los estuches de vuestras ricas memorias esas joyas admirables, hechas de astros y éteres. ¡Deseamos viajar sin vapor y sin velas! Para alegrar el tedio de nuestros calabozos, haced que a nuestras almas tendidas como velas, pasen vuestros recuerdos orlados de horizontes. Decidnos, ¿qué habéis visto?

No se escandalice el lector de que esta seriedad arraigue en lo frívolo; recuerde que hay grandeza en todos los delirios, fuerza en todos los excesos.

el marco negro vuelve la mirada más profunda y singular, confiere al ojo una apariencia más resuelta de ventana abierta sobre el infinito; el colorete, que enciende el pómulo, aumenta aún más la claridad de la pupila y añade a un bello rostro femenino la pasión misteriosa de la sacerdotisa.

Understand me. I'm not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

she wasn't very interesting but few people are.

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

It's possible to love another human being if you don't know them too well.

Don't undress my love you might find a mannequin; don't undress the mannequin you might find my love.

My heart is a thousand years old.

You know there's a lot of you I've loved and it hasn't been entirely your money.