Quotes About Depth

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.

Have you ever noticed, the saddest person has the most beautiful smile

If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

there is no game in her smile. There is warmth and kindness and something that looks like steel. You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say.

The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Like the hills under dusk you fall away from the light: you deepen: the green light darkens and you are nearly lost: only so much light as stars keep manifests your face: I feel the total night in myself rave for the light along your lips.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Human enjoyment was a fragile skin drawn over a great depth of potential misery

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

There wasn't time for artifice; their connection was the destination, not the dance that preceded it.

She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.

when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones.