Quotes About Depth

The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained.

When I kiss you, I can taste your soul.

I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that crosses the river of blood into Faerie, that flies so high it is scorched by the sun, and then returns to tell the tale to us. It is art that needed to be written, or painted, or sung, or woven, or otherwise shaped. It is art gifted by the Mystery to the maker...and then, in turn, gifted to us .

Christians possess a shallow understanding of the gospel as a result of years of hearing short "gospel presentations" tacked onto the ends of sermons. Still others who know the message of Christ find themselves feeling awkward and incapable of sharing the good news clearly with family and friends. Taking steps to be sure we know the gospel with some clarity and depth, then, is necessary.

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.

It is only the sentimentalist who imagines that the profundity of a person's response to tragedy is proportional to the length, volume, or shrillness of his lamentation.

There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

To ignore what cannot be measured in precise numbers is like counting the stems in a bouquet of flowers while ignoring the indescribable perfume and beauty of each bud.

life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes?

Tell him that I loved the little boy in him, and that I loved the man in him. Tell him I loved his sad side, and his laughing side.

I want the soul stuff, the melding of the mind stuff.

At the same time, she couldn't help but feel sad about his admission of a studied shallowness, a penchant for the one-dimensional. It made her long all the more for her midnight man. Eddie

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.

In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers;

Soon I reveled in the very premises I had set aside and rationalized away: the preexistent Logos, the triune mystery, the radical depth of sin passing through the generations, the risen Lord and the grace of baptism.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!