Quotes About Depth

N'est-ce pas l'une des vertus de l'écriture que de coucher sur la même feuille horizontale le futile et l'exceptionnel ? Tout reprend dans un livre l'épaisseur négligeable de l'encre écrasée.

An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.

The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, in its original French. It read: "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." What is essential is invisible to the eye.

He appreciated and represented the intricacies of life and showed an appreciation for complex and conflicting feelings.

Trav knew the real boy underneath, and he was three times as beautiful as the image.

And he would probably love Deacon Winters truly and deeply for the rest of his entire life, in the way that most men loved their wives.

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

Through the years, I've never met an emotionally mature man or woman of God who has not traveled through a period of great suffering. With God as our touchstone, suffering builds hope and humility. I've learned that each human being must sooner or later decide if they want to be cool or deep. I'm putting my money on deep.4

Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.

Love is unexplainable

Eres bonita -dijo Raúl-. Más aún de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista. Tienes una belleza escondida, que sólo puede conocerse al cabo de un gran rato de verte, de hablarte.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

as in Welles' pictures (or in Renoir's) through depth of focus but by virtue of a diabolic speed of vision which seems for the first time to be wedded here to the pure rhythm of attention. Undoubtedly all good editing takes this into consideration. The traditional device of shot-reverse-shot divides up the dialogue according to an elementary syntax of interest.

Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe.

À flanc d'abîme, construit en pierre philosophale, s'ouvre le château étoilé.

Le coeur humain est beau comme un sismographe.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

We talk about things. We talk about nothing.