Quotes About Depths

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls

If there were a choice—and he suspected there was—a choice between, on the one hand, the heights and the depths and, on the other hand, some sort of safe, cautious middle way, he, for one, here and now chose the heights and the depths.

Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.

The village is perched on a precipitous hillside, and the houses are built in tiers, one up behind the other, the floor of one level with the roof of the next. The whole village looks as if it were just about to slide into the depths of the valley below.

Certain memories, like the imaginary balloons Yassi made with her delicate hands when she was happy, rise from somewhere in the depths of what we call memory. Like balloons, these memories are light and bright and irretrievable, despite the 'air sadness' (Bellow's term) surrounding them.

The Pacific is twice the size of the Atlantic, a comparison perhaps too incomprehensible to convey meaning. If in a cartoon, Mount Everest were placed on the floor of the Mariana Trench south of Guam, its peak would fall 6,800 feet short of the surface of the Pacific.

En una gota de agua se encuentran todos los secretos de todos los océanos. KAHLIL GIBRAN, POETA

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations—in the depths—it's noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.

We have very irrational souls, very powerful, romantic, emotional, highly motivated souls.

Lo desconocido es el enemigo eterno del Homo Sapiens y su mayor amigo, que desafía constantemente la facilidad individual para la adaptación y la representación, que empuja constantemente a hombres y mujeres mayores profundidades y hacia cimas más altas.

There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.

The gospel offers a different view of suffering: in suffering we enter the depths; we are at the heart of things; we are near to where Christ was on the cross.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Standing side by side, on some rising ground, they felt, as they drank in the air, the pride of a life more free penetrating into the depths of their souls, with a superabundance of energy, a joy which they could not explain.

encontrava-se numa dessas crises em que a alma inteira mostra indistintamente o que encerra como o oceano que, nas tempestades, entreabre-se das algas das praia até a areia dos abismos.

for he was in one of those crises in which the whole soul shows indistinctly what it contains, like the ocean, which, in the storm, opens itself from the seaweeds on its shores down to the sands of its abysses.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

se encontraba en una de esas crisis en que el alma entera muestra indistintamente lo que encierra, como el océano que en las tempestades se entreabre desde las algas de su orilla hasta la arena de sus abismos.

Para mí no tenían nada de grotescos los huesos y los esqueletos esparcidos por las criptas de piedra cavadas en las profundidades de los cimientos. En mi fantasía asociaba estas cosas con los hechos cotidianos y los hallaba más reales que las figuras en colores de seres vivos que veía en muchos libros mohosos.

I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.