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Quotes About Depth

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
~ Loren Eiseley
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true deep feelings in my writing.
~ Norman MacCaig
The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.
~ H. L. Mencken
The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
~ Laozi
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The heart of a man is like deep water
~ Douglas Coupland
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
~ A. E. Housman
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~ Amelia Barr
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
~ Arthur Helps
A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.
~ Austin O'Malley
There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.
~ Charles Portis
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
~ Ellie Goulding
The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
~ Eugene Ionesco
Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?
~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.
~ Matt Bomer
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.
~ Melina Marchetta
Doom is thinking-man's heavy, something you climb into and not only discover the riffs and depth of the music, but also you also climb into yourself and explore the inner environment.
~ Mike Scheidt
Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem we men can never hope to solve.
~ P. G. Wodehouse