Quotes About Depth

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

The truth is at the bottom of a well: look into it and you see the sun or the moon; but if you throw yourself in, there's no more sun or moon: just truth.

Per lei, vedo, la bellezza non ha niente a che fare con la verità." "La verità è nel fondo di un pozzo: lei guarda in un pozzo e vede il sole o la luna; ma se si butta giù non c'è più né sole né luna, c'è la verità.

La verdad está en el fondo de un pozo; uno mira en un pozo y ve el sol y la luna, pero si se tira ya no hay ni sol ni luna, está la verdad.

How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense?

You can't love anyone until you have drawn blood and dipped in your fingers and enjoyed it.

A person could skim all the books in a city library and still be more illiterate than a person who studies ten pages of a single good book letter by letter --- in other words, with real accuracy.

Do not reduce me to an understanding. I am more than that.

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can't be how the universe works." "In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

It's turtles all the way down.

It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.

I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. —William Shakespeare, The Tempest

In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To see what the poet shows, to smell what he describes and the urge to taste the intangible.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Easy answers are never really useful ones, so hopefully we're not trying to peddle easy answers.

My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

I like black because it is a vacant space.