Quotes About Depth

How awful for you! By the looks of it, you've developed a soul.

To say we know a person is to write that person off.

small talk is for neighbors and families and maybe, in your case, coworkers. You don't waste your life having small talk with strangers.

A gilmpse into the depth of other people's misfortunes makes us cling to the hope that the suffering is measurable. There are more sorrowful sorrows, more despondent despondencies. When we recognize another's suffering, we cannot avoid confronting our own, from which we escape to the thought of measurability. Well, at least, we emphasize. Our capacity to console extends only to what we can do to console ourselves.

You may think I'm small, but I have a universe in my head.

People are afraid of shadows. People are even more afraid of being in the shadow. But without a shadow, life will be two dimensional.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

Her expression almost never changed. Made it hard to tell what she was thinking. But also made her seem separate from the rest of the world. It was like she lived so deep in the ocean even light couldn't reach her. Like a fish that couldn't see the dark lonely depths, because it was always dreaming about sunlight.

Let the darkness that is in my heart become equal to the darkness of the night that surrounds those innumerable lights!

At such times I felt as though I was drenched up to my neck in the existence that was myself.

I svetlost se još širi i ljudi slave dan. Ja se klonim sunca i bacam dušu u tamni bezdan.

Hay ciertas ocasiones en las que los seres humanos creen que pueden conseguirlo todo. En estos momentos, cuando todo su ser está empapado de esta creencia, ven muchas cosas que normalmente son invisibles para los ojos humanos. Luego, pasado un tiempo, incluso después de haber descendido hasta el fondo del pozo de la memoria, estos momentos reviven unos instantes y de nuevo les recuerdan a los hombres la milagrosa plenitud de las penas y las alegrías del mundo.

I sense you in the secret of all the paintings I love. I hear you stumbling at the stony core of the only books I read, the few I know how to read.

Uncurious people do not lead examined lives; they cannot see causes that lie deeper than the surface.

nobody h?s ever me?sured, not even poets, how much the he?rt c?n hold.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the hearth can hold.

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I confess I'm not on Twitter. You could say it's the ultimate schmoozing tool, but a limit of 140 characters suggests relationships that are too superficial for me. Hey, I do psychotherapy online. I like to go deep.

She was talking to a something deep in me that never got talked to, that hardly even had words.

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside.

Little understanding cannot come up to great understanding; the short-lived cannot come up to the long-lived.

an in-depth look reveals considerably more than a casual glance