Quotes About Depth

People are attracted to authentic beauty that has a human rather than mannequin quality.

a flash of silver just below the surface.

I couldn't shake the feeling that Guy was more complicated than a good-ole-boy mango grower and Schein had more secrets than Freud's Wolf Man.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

If we could actually see the current digital work world encircling us, it would leave us breathless, given its reach, depth and moving parts; it would be not just a new continent but a new planet (only digital).

If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. The erotic can be a window into the deepest core of feeling, but more and more doesn't get you there.

Friendship among men, when it overpasses a certain limit, has something deep, high, ideal, infinitely sweet, to which no other friendship attains.

Too thick to drink," as the boatmen used to say about the water of the Mississippi River, "too thin to walk on.

Von Braun told Rosin that there would be a succession of "enemies." "First it will be the communists, then it will be the terrorists, and after that it will be the extraterrestrials."5 As the succession of "enemies" appears to be coming on stage exactly as planned, I should like to examine each one in somewhat greater depth than I have done before.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

We see now that the abyss of history is deep enough to hold us all.

His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!...

Lo más profundo del hombre es la piel.

Ce qui n'est pas ineffable n'a aucune importance.

Ce qu'il y a de plus profond dans l'homme, c'est la peau.

Solo leemos verdaderamente a fondo lo que leemos por motivos personales. Puede ser que busquemos conseguir algún poder. Puede ser, simplemente, que odiemos al autor.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

You know there isn't much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

They were both beautiful and interesting, full of deep water, as the Kips would say. And

There wasn't anything simple about them, and I preferred that, and trusted it. My life wasn't simple either.