Quotes About Depth

But all sudden things come from a deep study of conversion -- they are sudden only on the surface.

Seule la littérature peut vous permettre d'entrer en contact avec l'esprit d'un mort, de manière plus directe, plus complète et plus profonde que ne le ferait même la conversation avec un ami – aussi profonde, aussi durable que soit une amitié, jamais on ne se livre, dans une conversation, aussi complètement qu'on ne le fait devant une feuille vide, s'adressant à un destinataire inconnu.

Even more, they cannot play this role in front of another being. And yet they ought to be able to do so: for this dissolution of being is a tragic dissolution; and we all continue, moved by a painful nostalgia, to ask the other for what we ourselves can no longer be; to seek, like a blinded phantom, this weight of being that we no longer find within ourselves. This resistance, this permanence; this depth. Of course, everyone fails, and the loneliness is excruciating.

Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend.

Hay vinos que son como algunos seres.

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

We know that under the image revealed there is another which is truer to reality and under this image still another and yet again still another under this last one, right down to the true image of that reality, absolute, mysterious, which no one will ever see or perhaps right down to the decomposition of any image, of any reality.

Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else.

Friendship is higher than love. Sometimes, it's less glamorous, or less passionate, but it's deeper and kind of wiser, I think.

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

Përditë shoh qartë e ma qartë dhe vuej thellë e ma thellë.

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Si en el primer instante sintió vaciarse sus pupilas para abarcar la inmensidad, ahora la inmensidad se las llenaba. Era el regreso de la marea hasta sus ojos.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

Las frases, cuanto más profundas, son más vacías. No hay profundidad mayor que la de un pozo sin fondo.

Quien conozca una, una sola bien, las conoce todas, conoce a la Mujer. Además, ya sabe usted que todo lo que se gana en extensión se pierde en intensidad.

El alma es un manantial que sólo se revela en lágrimas.

to enjoy the flesh of one's own soul).

Todo lo que en extensión parece ganarse, piérdese en intensidad»;

El alma es un manantial que sólo se revela en lágrimas. Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma.

Todo lo que en extensión parece ganarse, piérdese en intensidad.