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Quotes About Depth

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A great book is like great evil.
~ Callimachus
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
~ Albert Camus
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
~ Nicholas Lea
Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
~ William Styron
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
~ Laozi
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
~ Keira Knightley
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
~ James Fenton
Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
~ Blaise Pascal
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Great minds sink alike, right?
~ Jay McInerney
One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...Otherwise you will drown in me.
~ Maryum Ahsam
Next to the highest peak of happiness, there's the deepest gap of pain.
~ Octavian Paler
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
~ William Maxwell
Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
~ Ariel Gore
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
~ C.S. Lewis
Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.
~ Rex Brandt
Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.
~ Frederick Lenz
If only they could see the things we hide behind those shining eyes and blissful smiles.
~ Akshay Vasu
I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also people that can make me smile.
~ Abbey Lee Kershaw