Quotes about Depth

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.

Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former as the stage one sometimes sees in the theatre behind the real stage stands to the latter.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.