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Quotes About Depth

I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.
~ Jaeda DeWalt
Mankind is like ocean, we only see the things which comes up! If we wanna know someone better we need a deeper dive.
~ Irfa Adam
To be able to communicate at a soul level with another human being is the biggest treasure of the physical dimension.
~ James Van Praagh
We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't want complicated icons. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant.
~ James W. Loewen
But why should I care what he's doing if I'm crazy about you?' 'We are allowed to have more than one feeling at once,' said Kenneth. 'We are human beings, not ants.
~ Jami Attenberg
The waters hold all heaven within their heart.
~ Jan Karon
Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.
~ Jan Wolkers
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
~ Jane Campion
and my professional idol Vanessa Redgrave. There is a quality about Vanessa that makes me feel as if she resides in a nether-world of mystery that eludes the rest of us mortals. Her voice seems to come from some deep place that knows all suffering and all secrets. Watching her work is like seeing through layers of glass, each layer painted in mythic watercolor images, layer after layer, until it becomes dark—but even then you know you haven't come to the bottom of it.
~ Jane Fonda
I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.
~ Jane Hamilton
It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of newness. Still, the permeability seems to travel both ways: a changed self will find new meanings in a good poem, but a good poem also changes the shape of the self.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Yūgen's hallmarks [are] mystery and depth .. . . it is characterized by sadness, unspoken connotations, imagery of a veiled, monochromatic nature, and an atmosphere of haunting beauty.
~ Jane Hirshfield
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.
~ Jane Kenyon
Do not wander in the deeps, Where the Shriker's shadow creeps. When he rises from beneath, Beware the Sharpness of his teeth.
~ Janet Lee Carey
Here's the thing about being shy: just because you're not bowling people over with your giant personality, they might think there's not a lot going on inside. But they'd be wrong. Quiet types have rich inner worlds - we just don't let everyone see them.
~ Janet Tashjian
El amor puede nacer de una mirada. – El amor no necesita ni siquiera una mirada para nacer. Señorita poeta, usted desconoce muchas cosas.
~ Janine Teisson
I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
~ Janis Joplin
I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.
~ January Jones
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
~ Japanese Proverb
The eyes, you know, are the windows to the soul. You can see who, or what, is living inside." "How
~ Jason Arnopp
A puzzle is something you figure out and you're done with—a crossword, sudoku, a Rubik's cube. A mystery is more like the face of someone you love. The more you know, the more there is to be known, and the more you want to know. ... a mystery has no bottom.
~ Jason Byassee
When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.
~ Jason Fried
Artificial culture is paint. Real culture is patina.
~ Jason Fried
For most people, we are only superficial beings, a sketch, a few scrawled lines.
~ Javier Marías