Quotes About Depth

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Nothing's ordinary when you really look at it.

Cher Paul, the artist must always ask himself, am I painting the surface only, or am I revealing the eternal soul of my subjects? Without this, we only add to the agony. We too would be merely using the prostitutes—and worse, for we do not pay them.

This is one of the principal reasons people seek out spiritual teachers. They figure there is more to most things than meets the eye.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

The sky is deep then?' Dietrich said. 'Immeasurbly deep.

He was a man of great depth but of limited breadth, so that while he knew very little, he knew a great deal about it.

He is intrigued by complex minds.

What is truth?" I said. "Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper, something that is profoundly true— on all levels? Not just the literal one. It's like poetry.

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

Wisdom can reveal the light hidden in dark times; but it requires that we face the darkness in ourselves. People may desire pearls of wisdom, yet most are unwilling to descend to the depths where the pearls wait to be found. Wisdom involves a necessary descent into the depths of life, for that alone can produce 'lived knowledge' and a unified vision.

Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

Intercourse is the organic expression of two psyches, not a mechanical plugging in.

He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

She gives off an aura of enormous sadness, though her powers of humor and forgiveness seem to run equally as deep.

I have been visited by every shade of grief and know that it doesn't come in black or white

Her eyes brown in places that brown could only dream of reaching.

she could move Audie, who felt as though he was staring into the depths of a well. All he had to do was fall.

No man is ever just one thing.

She was infuriating and outrageous, demanding, selfish and arrogant…and very, very dear to me.