Quotes About Depth

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.

A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

qué falso puede ser el más profundo de todos los libros cuando se pretende aplicarlo a la vida.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

I love you for reasons you'll never know anything about

It's about atemporality. About opting out of the industrialization of novelty. It's about deeper code.

he ran his palms up the warmth of her bare back, beneath the white T-shirt, that the people in his life weren't beads strung on a wire of sequence, but clustered like quanta, so that he knew her as well as he'd known Rudy, or Allison, or Conroy, as well as he knew the girl who was Mitchell's daughter. "Hey," she whispered, working her mouth free, "you come upstairs now.

he was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less.

Which had a top layer of truth to it, but latticed, like the caramel on the cronuts.

He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.

The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.

Hace una hora, creí que te amaba más de lo que ninguna mujer ha amado nunca a un hombre, pero media hora más tarde, supe que lo que había sentido entonces no era nada comparado con lo que sentí después. Mas al cabo de diez minutos, comprendí que mi amor anterior era un charco comparado con el mar embravecido antes de la tempestad.

I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm.

It's turtles all the way down.

It had the side-to-side proportions of a small sitting room, but its floor was way below. Absurdly deep. Steps angled down. It was a shaft of roomness, shelved with books. Ladders dangled from the stacks. As the church's holdings grew, Billy thought, horizontal constraints required generations of kraken worshippers to dig for their library.

Into sleep's benthos and deeper. A slander that the deepest parts are lightless. There are moments of phosphor with animal movement. Somatic glimmers, and in the trench of sleep those lights were tiny dreams.

to defy the forgettable flatness of everyday work and life by creating a few precious moments.

it was like "peeling an onion" where we were going just slightly deeper on each exchange and when finished, we had moved quite a bit.

5. In individual relationships, we believe that relationships grow closer with time. But that's not the whole story. Sometimes long relationships reach plateaus. And with the right moment, relationships can deepen quickly.

Beauty is not everything!

Even the wisest don't know what's hidden in the depths of their being

How many mysteries are locked within the people we think we know.