Quotes About Depth

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

The guttural eruptions and long flowing vowels rolled just beneath my comprehension like a beautiful brook. I gazed into this brook for long spells of time. It was not wide, just one man's voice, but it was as deep as the universe.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.

We are spirits clad in veils.

Either you choose to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

When love is true, it enters the bones…

Lebih oenting dari bahasa kata-kata yang tertulis adalah bahasa yang keluar dari lubuk hati.

Hij is zacht, goed, subliem, rechtvaardig. Maar wie herkent zich in die mengeling die ruikt als naar transcendentie verbannen rozenwater? Een wezen zonder valsheid mist diepgang en mysterie; het verbergt niets. Alleen onzuiverheid is een kenteken van realiteit.[...] Omdat hij overloopt van leven, heeft de Duivel geen altaar: de mens herkent zich te veel in hem om hem te aanbidden.

And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible.

Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart.

her short stories read like perfect songs.

No fundo ela não passara de uma caixinha de música meio desafinada.

Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.

This text that I give you is not to be seen close up: it gains its secret previously invisible roundness when seen from a high-flying plane. Then you can divine the play of islands and see the channels and seas. Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language. I'm not transmitting to you a story but just words that live from sound. I speak to you thus: "Lustful trunk.

Com surpresa descobriu que o conhecia profundamente. Apenas superficialmente é que o desconhecia.

At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.

Ouve, por eu ter mergulhado no abismo é que estou começando a amar o abismo de que sou feita.

Quero te conhecer por outras fontes, seguir para tua alma por outros caminhos; nada desejo de tua vida que passou, nem teu nome, nem teus sonhos, nem a história do teu sofrimento; o mistério explica mais que a claridade.