Quotes About Depth

Like a young couple courting, our love had to be nurtured and strengthened by frequent presence before we could begin to discover that love is deeper than presence, and can be

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

there are innumerable things in life you can fathom only by experiencing them, that there is a depth in pure perception that cannot be grasped or invaded by thought or language.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

The grime of living is so much more interesting than the shine of eternity, I've always thought." He

Beauty is only skin deep.

The law, which preceded Christ's coming, revealed the power and depth of human sin, and thus the greatness of the redemption accomplished in Christ Jesus is set in bold relief.

There's things in a woman a man may never understand.

There may be phrases which shall be palaces to dwell in, treasure-houses to explore; a single word may be a window from which one may perceive all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them. Oftentimes a word shall speak what accumulated volumes have labored in vain to utter: there may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence.

It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo. An' even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. Only the dead know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo.

Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

I have long noticed that people who talk to those closest to them only about what they eat, what they wear, the money they make, the trip they will or will not take next week—such people are of two sorts. They either have no inner life, or their inner life is painful to them, is beset with regret or fear.

Most rájött arra a titokra, melybÅ'l sohase gyógyulunk meg, hogy még a legtökéletesebb szerelemben is egyikünk kevésbé mélyen szeret, mint másikunk. Mindketten egyformán jók lehetünk, egyformán tehetségesek és szépek is; de sohase lehet két ember, aki egyformán szereti egymást.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There

Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. . .

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

People think that the ocean is made up of waves and things that float on top. But they forget—the ocean is also what lies at the bottom, all the broken things stuck in the sand. That, too, is the ocean.

Without the shading there is not so much depth. A poster without any shading may be brilliant and effective; but it does not have depth in it. The contrast between shadow and light gives an added dimension to the painting. So it is in the chart, recognition of the Shadow seems to intensify the highlights. (Carl Leipert)

how to be poignant and moving and clever on the face of that, when all I felt was hollow.

the power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie.

You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.