Depth Quotes - Page 35

• And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.151

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• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  Clarence Day

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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  You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

  Frederick Douglass

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Spiritual, Epic, Class

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1983). “Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture”, Scholarly Title

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• Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Pain, Motivation

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• Probably not. Their depth and our play right now...it doesn't look too good.

  Daniel Alfredsson

  Hockey, Play, Looks

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• It was the consideration of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, because it is of faith that all those who die in mortal sin are condemned forever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned, for, as their lives have been, so also will their end be.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Fall, Soul, Statistics

  "The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret".

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• Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, People, Levels

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• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Despair, Height, Claims

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Dark, Grieving

  1851 Twice- Told Tales,'The Haunted Mind'.

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• As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every moment of my life, including my emotions, attitudes, and motivations. The depth of emotion I experienced during this life review was astonishing. Not only could I feel the way both I and the other person had felt when an incident took place, I could also feel the feelings of the next person they reacted to. I was in a chain reaction of emotion, one that showed how deeply we affect one another.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Suicide, Motivation, Attitude

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• The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Shoes, Snow

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.547, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Love You, Addresses, Fidelity

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• Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.

  Samuel Henry Miller

  Self, People, Levels

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• If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Successful

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.72, Harper Collins

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Air, Glowing

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

  Aberjhani

  Flower, Bridges, Agony

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

  Helen Keller

  Bad Ass, Soul, Darkness

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.

  Paula Deen

  Hard Work, Heart, Kids

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• Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware of who she was for us, and the more intimately we experience what her love meant for us. Real, deep love is, as you know, very unobtrusive, seemingly easy and obvious, and so present that we take it for granted. Therefore, it is only in retrospect - or better, in memory - that we fully realize its power and depth. Yes, indeed, love often makes itself visible in pain.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Memories, Real

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• Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Ocean, Cutting

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• Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Believe, Diversity, Understanding

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• Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.

  Annie Lennox

  Long, Needs, World

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• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, School, Men

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

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• Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Warrior, Doe

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.424, Indiana University Press

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