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Quotes About Depths

Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.
~ Franz Kafka
That you had more hidden away inside you than anyone else she'd ever met.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
~ George Eliot
we are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.
~ Amitav Ghosh
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
~ Anais Nin
It was unreal because I live only in the depths. When I come to the surface for pleasure, I don't live. I live only in passion, pain, depths, darkness. But I try to breathe above of the deep ocean of sensation.
~ Anais Nin
È quasi impossibile rendere il senso della vera tristezza; è una creatura degli abissi che non può mai comparire alla vista.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
~ Saul Bellow
There is so much life underneath the water that we dont know about.
~ Cameron Bright
I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!
~ Aeriel Miranda
you cannot operate on the sea during war unless you have command of the sea, the air above it, and the depths beneath it.
~ Edward L. Beach
Who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who Knows its depth?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
There was something malevolent in the inequality, and now I knew it. It acted in the depths, it dug deeper than money.
~ Elena Ferrante
humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.
~ Arnold Bennett
the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and thus unreflective of-- and unattuned to-- the seismic emotional and psychic reality underneath, our true reality... The arts put onto the page or the stage or the canvas or the screen a special portraiture that does justice to our depths.
~ Arnold Weinstein
at the bottom of every story, there's always something monstrous. Thrashing about in the mud.
~ Fred Vargas
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that such pain makes us better; but I know it makes us more profound... In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns newborn, having shed one's skin... with merrier senses, with a second dangerous innocence in joy, more childlike and yet a hundred times subtler than one has ever been before.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I undertook something that not everyone may undertake: I descended into the depths, I bored into the foundations
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The obscurities in my soul terrify galaxies.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When we look out for the Barbarian, we look in the depths. But there is another type of Barbarian, who comes from the heights.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The crisis in their souls begins at the moment when they either recognize that they have tremendous potentialities not yet exercised or begin to yearn for a religious life which will make greater demands on them. Up to that moment of crisis, they have lived on the surface of their souls. The tension deepens as they realize that, like a plant, they have roots which need greater spiritual depths and branches meant for communion with the heavens above.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
~ Ben Carson