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Quotes About Depths

In the depths of my heart, traced by nature in characters which nothing can efface. I need only consult myself with regard to what I wish to do; what I feel to be good is good, what I feel to be bad is bad.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The ocean and outer space are the same thing... There's no air. It's bleak and it's lonely... Humans have walked on the surface of the moon, but we still haven't been to the deepest part of the ocean.
~ Unknown
The ocean was the greatest secret keeper of all. Some of its secrets, like the hidden shoals, could be discovered, but most would never be known. Thousands upon thousands might be revealed, yet there would always be more that remained hidden. The ocean was probably the most mysterious thing in the world, Reuben thought, except for a person.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
~ Tristan Tzara
It was like a spot of thin ice on a frozen lake, where the cool safety of the upper world came too close to the dark depths below.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There are seven levels!
~ Paul McCartney
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.
~ Herbert Read
barrels into the shaft as far
~ David Baldacci
stroke he imagined plunging
~ David Baldacci
And his dreams late that night, after the Braintree-Bob Death Commitment, seem to set him under a sort of sea, at terrific depths, the water all around him silent and dim and the same temperature he is.
~ David Foster Wallace
His partner, Peter Hoskin, was waiting, and together they climbed down the series of inclining ladders to the forty fathom level, and stooped through narrow tunnels and echoing caves until they reached the level they were driving south-west in the direction of the old Wheal Maiden workings.
~ Winston Graham
Tenho medo de escrever. É tão perigoso. Quem tentou, sabe. Perigo de mexer no que está oculto – e o mundo não está à tona, está oculto em suas raízes submersas em profundidades do mar. Para escrever tenho que me colocar no vazio. Neste vazio é que existo intuitivamente. Mas é um vazio terrivelmente perigoso: dele arranco sangue.
~ Clarice Lispector
It's like moments I had with you, when I would love you, moments I couldn't go past because I descended into their depths.
~ Clarice Lispector
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.
~ Clifton Fadiman
She's a very mysterious creature, with an open smile and a closed soul.
~ Colette
Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.
~ Hermann Bahr
Como botones de nácar que estuvieran cosidos por debajo, quizás hasta dentro de la tierra.
~ Herta Muller
Secrets lie in the entrails of things, in the dregs.
~ Holly Black
Ocean, who is the source of all.
~ Homer
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.
~ Ellen Ullman
Their family and friends are the only ones who can understand the depths of their grief, the life's work of creating meaning in loss, of having their world shaped by violence they couldn't see coming and did not deserve.
~ Jess Lourey
The truth is there's always a hidden world under the one we initially perceive, but grasping its nature can be inconvenient, unsettling even dangerous.
~ Jess Lourey
My dreams tend to be either so obscure as to seem random, or so obviously connected to my subconscious that it's embarrassing- as if even my hidden depths lack depth.
~ Jess Walter