Depth Quotes

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

The depth of time is endless.

Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult and so desperately important to find a reason for staying alive. How else should a person go on living? Sheer misery makes one profound.

When there is a crack in trust in a relationship, then the bond of the union is at risk

The depth of true love is endless

When all the battles are fought then the biggest battle is, the battle to honour and treasure the hard won victory.

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)

Love can take you from any depth and place you on the highest mountain.

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.