Quotes About Depth

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The lake's deep...and dark...and dangerous.

His eyes narrowed as if contemplating the gravity of the unforgivable. That was what I both hated and loved about Rafe. He challenged me on everything I said, but he also listened intently. He listened as if every word I said mattered.

Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.

And as high as the trees stretched, the roots reached to the foundations of the earth.

Love didn't even seem like the right word to explain how I felt about her. The word seemed too small, too used, too simple, and everything I felt about her seemed complicated and rare and as wide as the world.

Love didn't even seem like the right word to explain how I felt about her. The word seemed too small, too used, too simple,

Vielleicht gab es nicht nur eine einzige Art, Liebe zu definieren. Vielleicht hatte die Liebe so viele Schattierungen wie das Blau am Himmel.

Love didn't even seem like the right word to explain how I felt about her. The word seemed too small, too used, too simple, and everything I felt about her seemed complicated and rare as wide as the world.

At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people—intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.

How much does anyone ever know about another man's heart?

Uno no teme una conversación simplemente por el miedo a que se vuelva intensa. Pero la intensidad puede constituir un poderoso disolvente de superficies protectoras finas y frágiles.

The spiritual self is the deepest, most integrated aspect of who we are.

Tus ojos son demasiado grandes; cuando ríes, a través de ellos se ve tu corazón.

A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.

One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

And sometimes when her light brown eyes locked on to my dark brown ones, it was like she was reaching a hand all the way into my chest, like she was digging around in there for the most honest thing she could find.

And a thought occurs to him: Maybe you can't really know anyone just by looking at their face.

All I'm saying is, where relationships are concerned, don't confuse length with strength.

People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don't even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

Be a mystery, not a demographic. Be someone a computer could never quite know.

It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.