Quotes About Depth

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

You don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Each song highlights one feeling, and whatever that feeling, I think I've succeeded in showing the positive elements along with its gloomy side.

Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

One ascends into profundity, but profundity is nothing but a complication of the shallows, and 'one' is nowhere.

There was a world of complication in that one word.

For now that they sat close Peretur understood that the cool depths she had dreamt of lived as much in this woman as in the lake.

You have thrown out a signal bright enough to draw any who can hear and see; now they will be clamouring to enter you, to know you, to have you as a bee might climb inside a flower. And like a bee they will strip you bare and leave you heavy will all that makes you who you are.

Her mother's voice was rich and round with secrets.

Perhaps she wasn't as good at it as he was. He cut too deep.

They reckon you feel love in your heart but that's bollocks. True love, the type what strikes you down and makes you change for ever, you feel that kind of love in every fucking organ inside you.

True love, the type that strikes you down and makes you change forever, you feel that kind of love in every f*****g organ inside you. Liver, kidneys, heart, and spleen. Every tiny cell what makes up your brain and your spine, your bones and blood and muscles. It keens through you.

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

Damit das Individuum interessant sei, muß die Ethik sein Leben komplizieren.

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfil them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The veneer of civilization is very thin.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.