Quotes About Depth

My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow.

Cormac McCarthy

Bücher müssen schwer sein, weil die ganze Welt in ihnen steckt.

Buecher muessen schwer sein, weil die ganze Welt in ihnen steckt!

And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on—developing and changing like our own world.

Love never dies, what is within is more important than what is without, the best is not always the most obvious, and once you've loved truly, Thor, then you know the way.

People are complicated, she continued, and the ones who aren't are boring. Then maybe I'm boring. We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, Maybe you are.

He seemed simultaneously like a stranger and someone she knew extremely well; there was either an enormous amount to say or nothing at all.

his blue eyes were intense, and

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

This is why we cannot love in the common sense. Somehow with you I cannot long be trivial, and, you know, to be always beyond this mortal state would be to lose it.

she was walking along the bottom-most bed--she was quite safe: quite safe, if she had to go on and on for ever, seeing this was the very bottom, and there was nothing deeper. There was nothing deeper, you see, so one could not but feel certain, passive.

Instead of men kissing you, and touching you, they revealed their minds to you. It was great fun! But what cold minds!

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all.

It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.

Awful things men were, savage, cruel, underneath their civilization.

You wheedle the soul out of things, he said.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

You pluck flower after flower — it is never the flower. The flower itself — its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.