Quotes About Depth

It's like when I look into the depths of things, dealing with my spirituality and the most high, it's serious. It's nothing to play with, nahmean. I try my best to be as humble as I can be.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

If I like you, I'm going to tell you. I'm a hugger, even with men: I'm just very deep.

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.