Quotes About Depth

The wise man is the one who sees reality as it is, and who sees into the depths of things. That is why only that man is wise who sees reality in God. To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest.

It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.

Mari sunt satisfac?iile unei vie?i laborioase, a?ezate ?i lini?tite, dar ?i mai mare este atrac?ia abisului.

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

God be thanked, the meanest of His mortals, Has two soul-sides, one to face the world with; One to show a woman when he loves her.

Life is not quite so simple as the uninformed would like to believe.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

It's easy being outrageous. Much harder to offer real meaning.

The aphorism is already a shadow of itself.

If you play a video game on your computer, such as "Doom" or "Uncharted", you see compelling 3D worlds with 3D objects. Yet the information is entirely 2D, limited by the number of pixels on the screen. The same is true when you look away from your computer to the world around you. It too has pixels, and all the information is 2D.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.