Quotes About Depth

It's darker than a black cat's ass in a coal mine, when you get back there.

like an ink drop falling into a coal cellar.

Don't discount that part of who he was just because you didn't know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

The land is so much more than its analysis.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

And the hatred was deep in the eyes of the people, beneath the surface.

His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.

People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.

Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another?

He felt a desire to open his body for her inspection, so that she could see all the hidden things in him, even the things he did not know were there.

Doctor Winter was a man so simple that only a profound man would know him as profound.

What is this? He has a sensation of touching glass. He doesn't know if they are talking about nothing or making code for the deepest meanings.

It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast.

No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong — you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass that drowns the mouths from which it has come and subsumes the space almost entirely in black Finn (p112).

God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that's why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can't notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want

The entirety of our mind, on the other hand, is by its very nature deep, vast, intrinsically still and quiet, like the depths of the ocean.

Our lives unfold only in moments. If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation.

It wakes us up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments. If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation.

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

A family is a mystery.