Depth Quotes - Page 30

• On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel... Very tall they were, and the Lady no less tall than the Lord; and they were grave and beautiful. They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Memories, Eye

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• The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (1999). “Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann”, p.115, A&C Black

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• His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths.

  Charlaine Harris

  Eye, Dwelling, Caves

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.151, Penguin

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• In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

  Stefan Zweig

  Soul, Events, Stuff

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Night, Space, Torches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Giving, World, Helping

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Lonely, Laughter

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Echoes, Voice, Dwelling

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• Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Sea, All Alone

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1787, e-artnow

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• In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

  Luke Davies

  Desire, Companionship, Moments

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.63, Penguin

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• Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

  Alan Moore

  Order, Luxury, Long

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• He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.

  Victor Hugo

  Paris, Sublime, Fantastic

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• It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Real, Wish

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• Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

  Sue Grafton

  Heart, Dark, Black

  Sue Grafton (1992). “"I" is for Innocent”, p.208, Macmillan

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• Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Winter, Blessing

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.53, Penguin

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• Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beautiful, Character, Feathers

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.69, Dell

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• Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

  Truman Capote

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Dragons, Heartless

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead?

  Virginia Woolf

  Men, Sea, Ideas

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

  Guy Sajer

  War, Soldier, Generations

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.119, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

  Neil Strauss

  Inspirational, Commitment, Hobbies

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2014

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• He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

  Haruki Murakami

  Departed, Mind, Spoons

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• “You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Despair, Green, Green Gables

  "Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography".

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• It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

  George Eliot

  Average, Feelings, Rising

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.1222, ShandonPress

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• Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mind, Admitting, Shallow

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.92, Penguin

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