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Quotes About Depth

I've so many things to tell you, or rather only one, but that one is huge as the ocean, as deep and infinite as the sea… You are my love and my whole life!
~ Giacomo Puccini
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
identity is as impossible to pin down and hold as an ocean.
~ Gina Frangello
look into her eyes is to see
~ Ginger Garrett
Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep
~ Giulio Tononi
Of this poetry I'm left with the emptiness of an endless secret
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
eyes: so transparently enslaved by the soul
~ Glen Duncan
Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse – and the writer's.
~ Glen Duncan
I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
~ Glen Duncan
People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.
~ Glenway Wescott
What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.
~ Gloria Steinem
a quote from The Little Prince: "True love is visible not to the eyes, but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.
~ Gloria Steinem
Success isn't about reaching certain heights, it's about reaching certain depths.
~ Goa Kerle
The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.
~ Goa Kerle
Quiero disfrutar dentro de mí lo que ha disfrutado el conjunto de la humanidad. Quiero apresar con mi espíritu lo más elevado y lo más sumido en la profundidad, amontonar su ventura y su dolor en mi pecho y, de esta manera, ampliar mi yo y convertirlo en el suyo, y, al final, sucumbir como ella misma.
~ Goethe Johann W
No churlish moralist ever uttered a falser maxim than that "Beauty is but skin deep." Why Beauty is so deep that nobody has ever got to the bottom of it.
~ Thomas Clark Henley
Beauty… when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.
~ Nate Dircks
Did you think Beauty was so easy and merry a companion? Perhaps you were confusing Beauty with Having a Good Time.
~ Christopher Morley
...poetry is not greatly concerned with what a man thinks, but with what is so imbedded in his nature that it never occurs to him to question it: not a matter of which idea he holds, but of the depth at which he holds it.
~ Ezra Pound
My grief is like a magician's endless scarf — the more I let out the more there is.
~ Terri Guillemets
I am looking your heart in the eye!
~ Emily Dickinson, 1861
I am going to give from every corner of my soul.
~ Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is convex or concave should be doomed to not think of anything else, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.
~ Robert Towne, 1982
L'amour qu'il avait pour elle l'empêchait de bien la comprendre; elle, en revanche, ne le comprenait pas parce que sa stature excédait tout ce qui se trouvait dans le champ borné de sa perception.
~ Jack London