Depth Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  Book, Dark, Ideas

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Sight, Feelings, Mind

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.31, University of Illinois Press

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• Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hands, Giving, Sorrow

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.163, Macmillan

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• The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Reality, Events

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.41, Publishdrive

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• Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Romantic, Book, Reflection

  Michael Ondaatje (2007). “Vintage Ondaatje”, p.117, Vintage

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• The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Eye, Lakes

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pavement, Wet

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• There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.

  Douglas Adams

  Art, Opportunity, Simple

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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• you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pain, Children, Heart

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• To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

  Sue Grafton

  Mistake, Men, Silence

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• From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Giving Up, Heart, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.48, Grove Press

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• He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Dream, Land, Waiting

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “The Beginning and the End”, p.137, Anchor

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• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

  Alfred de Musset

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Suffering, Height, Plunge

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.503, Xist Publishing

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• Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

  E. O. Wilson

  Growth, Mind, Adults

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• The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion.

  Michael Cunningham

  Morning, June, Blue

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.9, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mean, Names, Needs

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• Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Mean, Eye

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, l. 21, song (added 1850)

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• The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

  Tristan Tzara

  Summit

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• So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

  Douglas Adams

  Hours, Yeah, Minutes

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Slaughterhouse Five, Causes

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Two, Hair

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 25, 2012

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• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  Neil Peart

  Spiritual, Baby, Art

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• We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

  Deborah Smith

  Water, Body, Guarding

  Deborah Smith (2002). “Alice At Heart”, p.10, BelleBooks

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