Quotes About Depth

Qué fácil callar, ser serena y objetiva con los seres que no me interesan verdaderamente, a cuyo amor o amistad no aspiro. Soy entonces calma, cautelosa, perfecta dueña de mí misma. Pero con los poquísimos seres que me interesan… Allí está la cuestión absurda: soy una convulsión, un grito, sangre aullando.

Dile que los suspiros del mar Humedecen las únicas palabras Por las que vale la pena vivir

the sense of things remains in the intensity of their names

Don't forget your eyes because I inhabit them

Todo hace el amor con el silencio.

Ir hasta el fondo de lo erótico es mi única necesidad, es tal que no la diferencio de mí. ¿Qué espero? Espero el milagro. Que los santos me concedan una buena frigidez.

He entendido con el corazón encogido que la verdad, cuando aparece, a menudo es solo la puerta a otra verdad más profunda que jamás habíamos sospechado y que a menudo lo explica todo. He cerrado los ojos durante un instante y he respirado hondo. Entonces la he visto. La base del iceberg. Ahí estaba. Potente como la luz de un faro.

Qué difícil es hablar así, sabiendo que todo lo que no sea hablar de lo que realmente importa es simplemente ruido. Huecos a rellenar.

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

Uskoro je povjerovao da to što on piše nije poezija, nego nešto drugo, nešto dublje i teže opisivo; nešto što izražava njegov doživljaj života: napeto srce, suze skrivene u o?ima, osloba?aju?e bezna?e. Te su pjesme bile blues, utvrdio je Mirza, a u to nema sumnje...

It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.

I can see into his soul, and it is beautiful.

Surface beauty...is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see.

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.

It is one thing to get all the notes right; any number of unsocialized conservatory prodigies can do that. It is another thing to play the thoughts within the notes, the light around them, the darkness behind them, the silence at the end of the phrase. That is what inspires awe.

It was in their eyes. They seemed like people who had travelled in space and who had looked upon the immensity of the universe; eternity had moved into them, and taken up residence inside.

The black sky just kept assuming deeper shades of black until, suddenly, it had blacked itself out entirely.

Like metaphors and works of art, the people who matter to us are all, so far as we are concerned, inexhaustible. They always remain a step beyond the furthest point our knowledge of them has reached—though only if, and as long as, they still matter to us.

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.

Launch not beyond your depth

A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

When we would consider the love of God in Christ, we are as one approaching the ocean: he casts a glance on the surface, but the depths he cannot sound." — R. C. C.