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Quotes About Depths

All of this comes out of what is now an empty space. There are depths to this. It's a lot to think about. From an empty space the future. If there's no empty space where can one put the future? It all figures if you take the time to think it out.
~ Russell Hoban
Een man hoeft slechts zijn intellectuele tienertijd te bereiken, of hij gaat vermoeden dat het leven geen klucht is; dat het zelfs geen elegant blijspel is; dat het integendeel bloeit en vrucht draagt uit de onpeilbare tragische diepten van wezenlijk gebrek waarin de wortels steken van wie het leeft.
~ Salman Rushdie
The ice is always waiting, Aadam baba, just under the water's skin
~ Salman Rushdie
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ci vuole la sciagura per scavare certe miniere misteriose nascoste nell'intelligenza umana; ci vuole la pressione per far esplodere la polvere.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Some of the world's blackest holes are out in the open for anyone to see....
~ Joe Sacco
You know what to do?" "Wander around," I said. "Until I spot a self-assembled whangdoodle from the Foggy depths.
~ Joel N. Ross
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Care has nested in the heart's depths, Restless, she rocks there, spoiling joy and rest, [645] There she works her secret pain, And wears new masks, ever and again, Appears
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
my father moved through dooms of lovethrough sames of am through haves of give,singing each morning out of each nightmy father moved through depths of height
~ e. e. cummings
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
~ E. M. Cioran
He was interested in the sudden friendship between two women so apparently dissimilar as Miss Bartlett and Miss Lavish. They were always in each other's company, with Lucy a slighted third. Miss Lavish he believed he understood, but Miss Bartlett might reveal unknown depths of strangeness, though not, perhaps, of meaning.
~ E. M. Forster
You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
~ E.M. Forster
I put myself away. I came up with the great vanishing system, in which I could retreat so deep within myself that, though I might still appear the same creature, actually I was very different. I thrust all thoughts and feelings into the depths of me, where they were safe, but in an outward way I became something like an automation.
~ Edward Carey
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
~ Anonymous
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.
~ Anthony Doerr
I had the gift, and arrived at the technique That called up spirits from the vasty deep...
~ Anthony Hecht
the afternoon shadows gloomed the depths of the city
~ Frank Herbert
En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica.
~ Frank Herbert
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
~ Franz Kafka
You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don't know.
~ Franz Kafka
Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida esté 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