Quotes About Depth

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today.

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

When he spoke, there was an odd vulnerability to his deep voice. As if he were letting her peek inside one of the dark chambers of the heart he seemed so sure he didn't possess.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

Lee Gruenfield, novelist: It's human nature, this propensity in the face of the profound to be distracted by the trivial.

I'm often asked how in the world we can develop life-changing sticky relationships in just ten weeks. Fact is, we can't. But by stringing together enough ten-week sessions, we end up with something much deeper than we'd ever get with a mere six-month or one-year commitment—and very little weaseling.

As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

The average age of our bench is deceased.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.

Dentro de ti hay muchos más de lo que tú imaginas

Dentro de ti hay mucho más de lo que tú conoces. -Christian

Es lo que suele suceder con las personas y con los objetos más asombrosos -se dijo-. Nunca lo parecen a simple vista.

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

He lifted his eyes. They were the color of the deepest heart of hurricane clouds, deeper blue than the sky behind him.

There's more to love than two pelvises in a tussle.

My feelings for Liam couldn't be processed as a single thought. He'd become a symphony in my mind, composed of boundless crescendos that never reached a logical end.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core.

I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.