Quotes About Depth

There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and that is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than the sky, and that is the human soul.

When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything.

Nothing is so logical and nothing appears so absurd as the ocean.

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones.

C'est que l'amour est comme un arbre, il pousse de lui-même, jette profondément ses racines dans tout notre être, et continue souvent de verdoyer sur un cÅ"ur en ruines.   Et ce qu'il y a d'inexplicable, c'est que plus cette passion est aveugle, plus elle est tenace. Elle n'est jamais plus solide que lorsqu'elle n'a pas de raison en elle.  

Nothing is more real than those great seismic shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging that spark.

Abstruse speculations contain vertigo.

What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

La forme, c'est le fond qui remonte à la surface.

Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.

Le mot tantôt comme un passant mystérieux de l'âme, tantot comme un polype noir de l'océan pensê.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the inmost recesses of the soul.

He was at that period of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.

What are the convulsions of a city compared with the riots of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

Se per caso capiva che la sua infermità si tradisse per qualche apostrofe incoerente o per qualche domanda inintelligibile, la cosa passava per profondità presso alcuni, per imbecillità presso altri. In ambedue i casi l'onore della magistratura era salvo, perchè un giudice può essere benissimo profondo o imbecille a suo piacere, ma sordo no.

Ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od mora, to je nebo; ima jedan prizor koji je ve?i od neba, to je unutrašnjost duše.

Assim como só nas entranhas da Terra se acham os diamantes, assim somente nas entranhas do pensamento se encontram as verdades.

His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

The abyss sometimes has these thoughtful ideas; but you will do well to beware of its kindness.

What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people.

Así como los diamantes sólo se encuentran en las profundidades de la tierra, las verdades sólo se hallan en las profundidades del pensamiento.

Nadas que são enormes dentro do vazio.

Existem meditações que se poderiam chamar verticais; quando se está lá no fundo, é preciso tempo para voltar à superfície.