Quotes About Depth

If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we'd live in a dull world.

Incomprehensible is no better than banal – it's just its flip-side.

That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

Strange when that part in you is touched how quickly you can fall apart. It's as if the words that are being said go to the deepest place, the place in you that's become the way you've become so you can keep on going. The helmet you put on when you were a kid that grew into your head and now someone is saying you have a helmet on your head.

She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

It was important not to show any emotion. But I felt hollow, like if you blew across my lips I would sound a note, deep and low.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since

I think that you can use up your love. I think you can blow it all on one person. You can love so much, so deeply, that there is nothing left for anyone else.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I'd rather go through life feeling everything in all its intensity than feeling nothing whatsoever." Faith

It is usually easier to see what lies on the surface of a person rather than taking the time and attention to delve deeper. ~ Lord John "Jack" Byron

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective. "Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology

IVY: This isn't whimsy. This isn't fleeting. This is unlike anything I've ever felt, for anybody. Charles and I have something rare, and extraordinary, something very few people ever have. KAREN: Which is what? IVY: Understanding.

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

blue. True? False? What's the coolest thing

down and down, toward the sea.

There's more to his story. There's always more to everyone's story, if you bother to find out what it is.

A dragon who understands me, finally. A dragon as deep and dark as I am, who sees my anger and wants to be nearer to it instead of freezing it away.

I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater beadth and depth and fewer contraints.