Quotes About Depth

Tullius Cicero said: "The eyes are the window to the soul.

Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

There must be a wound inside the words that communicates.

so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.

Exist? în istoria oamenilor revolu?ii private are nu sunt cu nimic mai prejos, în ceea ce prive?te profunzimea ?i r?sturn?rile pe care le antreneaz?, decât revolu?iile publice.

Right, right," I say, knowing that, one, I'll never be anywhere near one hundred and seventy feet deep, and two, I'll never forget I can't breathe without air.

Hell has degrees, so does love

I let myself drift, as to the depth of an ocean, to the depths of a dismal neighborhood of had and opaque but rather light houses, to the inner gaze of memory, for the matter of memory is porous

I let myself drift, as to the depth of an ocean, to the depths of a dismal neighborhood of hard and opaque but rather light houses, to the inner gaze of memory, for the matter of memory is porous.

He knows a sweep of gratitude, soft as another voice, and so wide and deep he believes he might drown in it.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

When timeless moments solicit you, accept the invitation. Go deep within it, until you find yourself in your absence.

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you

Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion.

Il créait dans leur couple une zone d'ombre d'où pourrait sortir le meilleur comme le pire.

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

The news took a moment to sink in, probably because there was no bottom for it to alight upon.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

you. Because people are complex

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)