#Depth Quotes

“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.”

“Under every deep a lower deep opens.”

“An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”

“Listen to presences inside poems.”

“The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.”

“Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.”

“But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.”

“The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.”

“Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.”

“Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.”

“How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?”

“Listen deeper than the music before you put it in the box.”

“Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.”

“You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.”

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.”

“It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.”

“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”

“She shows us only surfaces, but she is million-fathoms deep.”

“Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.”

“I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.”

“True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.”

“In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.”

“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”

“This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.”

“To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.”

“The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.”

“Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.”

“I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.”

“Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.”

“Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.”

“One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her.”

“If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”

“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.”

“To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.”

“I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.”

“Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.”

“A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.”

“The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.”

“I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.”

“Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.”

“The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane”

“It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.”

“Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.”

“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”

“What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.”

“It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”

“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”