Quotes About Depths

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

A book is the product of a different self from the one we manifest in our habits, in society, in our vices. If we mean to try to understand this self it is only in our inmost depths, by endeavoring to reconstruct it there, that the quest can be achieved.

Sing to me a tune of patience; A dream borne of tenacity. Pervade unto my being, a cadence; Whisper to me the depths of eternity...

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't any.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

The voice broke. Sobbing echoed off the cavern walls. Not a little boy. He stuck his head over the cavern entrance. "A woman?" Rafe spoke aloud. Trying to believe his own ears. The words echoed into the depths. There was no response, only sobs. But it was not his imagination. There really was

Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es. Ich schwieg es.

Professor Jonathan Rottenberg, an evolutionary psychologist and author of The Depths

Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We sound the depths of Hell very often in this life.

one of the stated rules of the game for Murakami, who declared (ostensibly through Nietzsche) that "one cannot understand the gloom of the depths of night in the light of day.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

Não existe terra, existem mares que estão vazios.

deep lines cut by trauma provide access to depths that are otherwise unreachable. In such instances, nourishment follows trauma to new places. We wish things could be otherwise … easier. But we have little choice when illumination shines through injury.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.

Still, the ten days were enough for me to see, as if peering over the edge of a well, that silence could be mystical, and that if you dared, diving fully into your inner depths might be both profound and disturbing.

Recordé entonces que en la profundidad de nuestro cerebro existe una zona llamada Isla. Que todos tenemos una isla sumergida en las profundidades de la mente y que la buscamos desesperados, como el diamante fundido de nuestro ser. Que nosotros mismos, y nuestro mundo, estamos profundamente hundidos en las aguas del tiempo y de la memoria universales.

the way of the "spirit of the depths" necessarily leads to the murder of the heroic.

Detachment from this world turns you into a spectator and you know the depths of awareness. Loneliness is like death, as if you died to society. They see you as a ghost.

The cheerful horrors of inner reality amaze to the depths of the soul with the shock humor of evil. It's as if they are beating a shocker from whom you are laughing.

a kind of wonder at the secret chamber at the center of every human heart whose contents are unguessable from the outside.

Odd things happen in a battle, and the human heart has strange and gruesome depths and the human brain still stranger shallows;

But when I looked into my aunt's eyes, I saw oceans and deserts. I saw a world not yet created, and worlds that had died long before I was born.

True prayer is not only of the mouth, it is of the heart, that is, of the whole being. It is a cry de profundis, out of the deep. There is a correspondence between the depths of the heart and the heights of heaven, understood not in a physical sense but in the sense of a 'beyond' in relation to the centre.