Quotes About Depth

Jungians call the "collective unconscious".

white crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide.

Our real beliefs are generally not to be found at the level of ego.

this is not about the mere extension of life along a horizontal plane, but about the deepening of life along a vertical plane. Mere longevity cannot render life meaningful any more than brevity has the power to make it meaningless.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Che cosa vede una camera? si chiese. Voglio dire, che cosa vede per davvero? E fin dove? Anche dentro la testa? Anche giù dentro il cuore?

Into this wild abyss

JACK: I don't understand why you feel like an onion.

This rivalry was hundreds of years old, and very deep and satisfying.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Simple is never that simple.

Sì, siamo soli, profondamente soli, e in serbo per noi, sempre, c'è uno strato di solitudine ancora più profondo. Non c'è nulla che possiamo fare per liberarcene. No, la solitudine non dovrebbe stupirci, per sorprendente che possa essere farne l'esperienza. Puoi cercare di tirar fuori tutto quello che hai dentro, ma allora non sarai altro che questo: vuoto e solo anziché pieno e solo.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends; it is with them that I take those walks in the country at the end of the day. I am also on friendly terms with Deadly Playfulness, Playful Playfulness, Serious Playfulness, Serious Seriousness, and Sheer Sheerness. From the last, however, I get nothing; he just wrings my heart and leaves me speechless.

In nome della ragione, si cerca sempre un motivo più elevato, un significato più profondo: allora avevo ancora l'abitudine di sforzarmi di essere ragionevole anche sull'irragionevole e cercare la complessità nelle cose semplici. Esigevo risposte dalla mia intelligenza, quando non erano affatto necessarie. Pensavo: non può essere così meschino e insulso come sembra. Questo non può essere che un decimo della sua storia. Deve avere, dentro, qualcosa di più.

Sono le onde a far sì che il mare non sia solo un enorme pozzanghera.

Beautiful is mysterious. It tells us that there's so much more than what we're seeing or learning. And that's why we're drawn to it. Because we want to know the part we're not seeing or hearing.

Digital communication is twenty-five thousand miles wide and a half-inch deep.

that's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

But he can also be incredibly sweet. And I know that, deep down, I mean the world to him. Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.