Quotes About Depth

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

All Fitzgerald's books are the product of maturity, reflection, the quickly touched depth of accumulated knowledge and long experience. Their creation reflects the new sense of opportunity that may come with the bereavements and displacements of later life.

like most people, they know one another inside out, and not at all.

L'abîme est ma clôture, être moi n'a pas de mesure

For any spirit of scientific bent, seeing more in something that is actually there is actually to see less. What you add in substance, you take away in spirit.

Glass is material sea.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon

the Gulphe in which truth lies is bottomless and it will wash over whatever is thrown into it.

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are.

that the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually the gravest? Perhaps the wise are grave because they remember the grave.

Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. "The course of true love never did run smooth." Kindness—mere kindness—cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Spirits have more possibilities for nearly everything than do bodies—for example, more pleasures and pains, and more subtle and profound pleasures and pains, than bodies.