Quotes About Depth

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Its only about realizing the importance of a genuine person. You may run for beauty and outward appearance but you will soon understand that they fade away and what remains is the person.

"Giving someone a piece of your soul is better than giving a piece of your heart. Because souls are eternal."

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

"You don't love somebody for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car; but because they sing a song only you can hear."

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

The age of sages is past; the age of specialists has come.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

You have taken me and quieted me. You have been such light to me that others have been your shadows. You come near me with the nearness of sleep. --Marriage, Wendell Berry

There was nothing glancing or sidling about the way he looked at you. He looked right through your eyes, right into you, as a man looks at you who is willing for you to look right into him.

But it was her eyes that most impressed me, they were nearly black and had a liquid luster. The brief laughing look that she had given me made me feel extraordinarily seen, as if after that I might be visible in the dark.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?

Lovely eyes in colour, lovely eyes in form — large and tender and quietly thoughtful — but beautiful above all things in the clear truthfulness of look that dwells in their inmost depths, and shines through all their changes of expression with the light of a purer and a better world.

It is true that love soars higher than the other passions; but it can stoop lower as well.

For as no perfect view of a country can be taken from a flat; so it is impossible to discover the remote and deep parts of any science by standing upon the level of the same science, or without ascending to a higher.

A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

All profound utterances have varied facets for diverse minds.