Quotes About Depth

How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

There must be more to stories than you think.

Her eyes were too full of beauty to leave room for anything so mundane as intelligence.

The sea sounded like a thousand secrets, all whispered at the same time.

We'd appraise each other, in the provisional way that lovers do, by attaching great depth and significance to the provisional. How, after all, do you know anyone? You take in certain physical and emotional characteristics that you've aestheticized, ignoring the facts. You listen to what a lover has to say, taking in the erotic music of their sound, their timbre, while dismissing the lyrics.

I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

Because there's so much that just can't be said plainly. Try describing what beauty is - plainly - and you'll see what I mean.

I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

There is a world inside the world.

The vast and terrible depth. "Of course," he said. "The inexhaustibility." "I understand." "The whole huge nameless thing." "Yes, absolutely." "The massive darkness." "Certainly, certainly." "The whole terrible endless hugeness." "I know exactly what you mean.

holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Something lurked inside the truth.

The shallower our arguments, the more intense we became.

The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.

Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.

I'm still sad, but you've given my sadness a richness and depth it has never known before.

How deep is time? How far down into the life of matter do we have to go before we understand what time is?

Beautiful writing may sparkle like a diamond necklace, but sparkling isn't a feeling.

But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste.

You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it.

The movies I like best are the slow literary movies that don't seem to be about anything and yet are about everything at the same time.

A Sales Funnel Controls the Pace of the Relationship In a relationship, you talk about things on a fourth or fifth date you might never talk about on a first date.