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Quotes About Depth

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
Her life is deep, but I still dig her
~ Lil Wayne
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
~ David Lynch
I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.
~ John Mayer
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
~ William H. Gass
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
~ Robert Musil
He who breathes deepest lives most.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.
~ James Hillman
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
~ V. S. Naipaul
When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.
~ Neville Goddard
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
There are no secrets in life; just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.
~ Michael C. Hall
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.
~ Edith Wharton
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
~ Anoushka Shankar
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.
~ Gustave Flaubert
What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
~ John Green
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
~ Carl Jung
There's more to you than meets the eye
~ Jennifer Niven