Quotes About Depth

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

I wanted to make some music with deeper meaning mixed with the fun and cool stuff I've been doing for so long.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

but all that rose to the surface was more surface.

These questions are futile to answer. Behind the answer there is another answer, and an answer behind that answer, and on and on.

pas la peine de creuser bien loin avec ces gens là, ils portent leur vieil inconscient en bandoulière

More meaning than was necessary was in the nature of things.

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka "nested dolls" that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20

I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves

All true art stems from the depths of the unconscious mind.

Brevity did not mean inconsequence...

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

Yes, if he is to have true music in him.

Nevertheless I must say what I was told. It was excavated to the depth of a hundred feet, and its breadth was a stadium everywhere; it was carried round the whole of the plain, and was ten thousand stadia in length.