Quotes About Depth

There was a place within my imagination so fathomlessly deep that the light of the real world could never touch it. Nothing but sex had ever been able to reach it. This place within me was prehuman, almost. Certainly, it was precivilization. It was a place beyond language. Friendship could not reach it. My creative endeavors could not reach it. Awe and joy could not reach it. This hidden part of me could only be reached through sexual intercourse.

Que quantidade incrível de fatores constitui um único ser humano! Em quantas camadas nós funcionamos, e que quantidade de influências recebemos de nossas mentes, corpos, histórias, famílias, cidades, almas e almoços!

There is grief below grief, she soon learned, just as there are strata below strata in the ocean floor—and even more strata below that, if one keeps digging.

Love like that is a deep well, with steep sides. Once you fall in, that's it - you will love that person always.

Pero ese amor que has sentido no es más que el comienzo. Casi ni lo has probado. Es sólo amor mortal, cutre y chapucero.Ya verás como eres capaz de amar mucho más profundamente. Diablos, Zampa, que un día llegarás a querer al mundo entero. Ese es tu destino. No te rías.

When you enter a room, all eyes turn to you. You blaze like a torch, lighting the darkest corners, brightening even those who thought they were already well lit. You bring joy and mirth and leave behind a glow that gives hope to those you left. And you, Mr. Makepeace? Are you one of those who thought themselves well lit? I am as dark as a pit. Now he was glad her back was turned. Even your torch will have difficulty lighting my depths.

If she'd been quizzed as to His Grace's eye color, she would've had to reply simply that they were dark. Which they were. Very dark, nearly black, but not quite. The Duke of Wakefield's eyes were a deep, rich brown, like coffee newly brewed, like walnut wood oiled and polished, like seal fur shining in the light, and even though they were rather lovely to look at, they were as cold as iron in winter. One touch and her very soul might freeze.

Can anyone ever know everything about another person?

i'm not sure either of them had a great capacity for love, that was all. it's funny - mine feels bottomless.

And still tears never feel like enough: the rinse something away, but only the surface, not whatever is underneath.

And still tears never feel like enough: they rinse something away, but only the surface, not whatever is underneath

I don't think it's really about being bitchy or demanding or cold or calculating: those characteristics, after all, can be attached to most women with even the paltriest of evidence. I think, quite frankly, that the world simply does not care for the complicated girls, the ones who seem too dark, too deep, too vibrant, too opinionated...

I had thought that I knew her affliction and not merely the fact of it. It was no stranger to me. I understood it emotionally, empathetically. But I had only ever touched down at its airport. She was a citizen of its vast interior.

Official justice does not dig deep, but regards what comes readily to the surface, and draws conclusions accordingly.

She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great bruised eyes, and his music she drank, and it was wine to her thirst.

Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.

They crawled inside and found that the cave was about 12 feet deep, with ample room to shelter them.

From the great deep to the great deep he goes.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Photography is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

lleva su inolvidable belleza con la distraída tranquilidad de quien es mucho más profundo que el estar siendo bonita todo el tiempo.

By which I mean that he saw in commonplace events the movement of greater tides than others saw.

You (humans) think that you are insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.