Quotes About Depth

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.