Quotes About Depth

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side.

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

Witchcraft is all about living to the heights and depths of life as a way of worship.

Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean." Lydia Davis

Eleven years—that is long. Long enough so that the roots of love, if the tree is robust, plunge so deep that they will subsist always, even dried up.

Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.

Better this immersion than to live untouched.

I am a deep believer in the unknowability of other people

Of course, the bulk of these monoliths remains underwater. Hence the old "tip of the iceberg" saying. To mean: This is just the beginning. You think this is something? This is nothing.

There was often truth to be found in wine that didn't come out otherwise.

Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts.

We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Jenny Bell, you're quite an enigma. But that's true of every artist. And I'd rather be with a woman who can't be fully known than one who is all surface and no soul.

Always love to the point of madness," he said, "or else what is the point of love?

If the words have no heart, there is no heart.

É preferível ficar na entressombra fecunda, que é só onde podem nascer as assombrações.

Na een paar maanden constateert hij [Goethe] dat het hem zwaar valt rekenschap af te leggen van zijn verblijf, want - zo noteert hij op 25 januari 1787 - 'zoals men merkt dat de zee steeds dieper wordt naarmate men haar verder opvaart, zo vergaat het ook mij bij het beschouwen van deze stad'. Zich Rome werkelijk toe-eigenen vergt een mensenleven - zo verzucht de auteur enkele maanden later - 'of zelfs het leven van vele mensen, die stap voor stap van elkaar leren.

People are more than just the way they look.

What happened if you melted a person down layer by layer? What if there was nothing between the layers, and nothing at the centre, only quiet?

The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright were they dull.

It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.