Quotes About Depth

dat een mensch meestal beter is, dieper denkt, edeler voelt dan hij schijnen laat in de iederen-daagsche banaliteit van het leven, die hem dwingt zich te bemoeien met nietsjes en woorden, ieder ogenblik.

O círculo em que podemos ter comunicações reais com outros seres é muito estreito: não se deve buscar ampliá-lo indefinidamente. Aqui só a qualidade importa. Numa comunicação real com um único ser, já estão contidas as relações de todos os homens entre si.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion?

Love erases even the deepest and most painful memories because love goes deeper than anything else.

Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our living room.' 'And some are let into the bedroom,' said Gamache.

the pain of neuralgia…she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply.

Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath.

Some people keep their darkness inside, and some hide their light. You, mon ami, almost certainly have a croissant in there.

Jean Guy Beauvoir was loosely wrapped but tightly wound.

He looked at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows. And bright blues. All intermingled. They formed no image. And he got no feeling. He closed his eyes. Paused. When he opened them, he let the painting come to him. To enter through his heart, not his head. With Clara's painting, like all great works of creation, there was more than met the eye.

No one was who they seemed. Everyone was more.

All the answers that sprang to mind were true, but there were levels to the truth.

Gamache again marveled at the people who chose to live in this area. Was Margaret Atwood a garbage collector perhaps? Or maybe Prime Minister Mulroney had picked up a second career delivering the mai. No one was who they seemed. Everone was more.

He was far beyond his depth, in his sea of glory," said Gamache.

There is always another story / There is more than meets the eye.

so many vaginas, stomachs, cocks, snouts, and flies you don't know what to do with them ... shovelsfull! ... but hearts? ... very rare! in the last five hundred million years too many cocks and gastric tubes to count ... but hearts? ... on your fingers! ...

Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.

Hay tales misterios en el corazón humano; abismos tan profundos, de amor, de abnegación, de generosidad, que la palabra no conseguirá jamás explicarlos. Hay que sentir y callar. Por eso una mirada, un abrazo, un ademán con la mano, dicen más que todo cuanto la pluma más hábilmente manejada pueda describir.

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Ein Philosoph ist ein Mann, der das Leben mit Fragen so stark belastet, daß es in sich geht: daß es in seine eigene Tiefe hinabsinkt.

Not "brook" [in German: Bach], but "sea" should he [Johann Sebastian Bach] be called because of his infinite, inexhaustible richness in tone combinations and harmonies. (Nicht Bach! Meer sollte er heissen: wegen seines unendlichen, unerschoepflichen Reichtums an Tonkombinationen und Harmonien.)

someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply