Quotes About Depth

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

The realest people don't have a lot of friends.

Then there are Root People. When I find someone who is like the roots of a tree, I know I've found someone special. Root People may be hard to find because they're

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb — when you look at it, it's looking back at you.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone; Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own

Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what that cannot be seen.

Hugs are not measured by quantity; they are measured by quality.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Wait for the one with integrity, the one who loves your body, but is enamored with your soul.

Isn't simplification sometimes impoverishment? How to convey the richness of the message with a poverty of symbols. If we oversimplify the form, don't we kill the content?

Verlaß mich, Bruder. Ich will schlafen, hingestreckt am Busen der Tiefe. Denn die kalte Welle mag mir Frieden bringen und das Feuer der Leidenschaft bitten zu verlöschen.

In an ordinary portrait the woman comes forward to meet whoever looks at her, and tells her own story. But here, the real woman lurks a hundred leagues behind the equivocal gaze, entirely closed to herself, a plant rooted yet in the mysterious soil out of which it has come.

Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.

The true poem rests between the words.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.

Certes, sous les silences d'antan, -comme, sous la calme surface des eaux, la mêlée des bêtes dans la mer, -je sentais bien grouiller la vie sous-marine des sentiments cachés, des désirs et des pensées qui se nient et qui luttent.

The truth is that our minds are corrupted by sin. Not just a little bit, but deeply, down to the depths as far as we can perceive, and beyond. And not just grossly, so that it is easy to figure out where we went wrong, but subtly, delicately, invisibly. If we think we know and appreciate how far we have gone wrong, we are still deceiving ourselves at this point also.

Pedure, there is a deepness in the sky, and it extends forever.

So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know

That profound darkness where weeping doesn't exist.

We've gone over all the soul's smallest details.