Quotes About Depth

I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness.

Or are you just looking for some Cliff-Note summary so you can incorporate the impression of depth into some new panty-removal campaign?

It starts to turn out that the vapider the AA cliche, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, both are infinite.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.

There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit.

Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound reverbs no hollowness.

But I have that within which passes show. these but the trappings and the suits of woe

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough.

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd; And I myself see not the bottom of it.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. -- William Styron (born June 11 1925)

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be named as sensuous or emotional as such, perhaps derived from each and gave to each but in essence grew out of a deeper fund of temperament that he still could not altogether apprehend. The simple miner's daughter was not simple in character at all.

So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it all—Depth beyond depth was revealed to me—the Byss and the Abyss.

Let me have your abyss.

Wir sind die Generation ohne Bindung und ohne Tiefe. Unsere Tiefe ist der Abgrund.

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win.

Recordando a Needleman Needleman no era un hombre fácil de comprender. Su reticencia era tenida por frialdad, pero poseía una gran capacidad de compasión.