Quotes about Depth
for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth
— Charles Dickens
'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
— Robert Brault
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
— Graham Greene
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
— Anne Frank
A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The supreme vice is shallowness.
— Oscar Wilde
I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
— Cormac McCarthy
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
— DH Lawrence
She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.
— DH Lawrence
It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.
— DH Lawrence