Quotes about Depth

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

The real things about man are not his body.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.

What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.

Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.

The abyss sometimes has these thoughtful ideas; but you will do well to beware of its kindness.

Now, perhaps, we are in a better position to understand the abyss separating Sabina and Franz: he listened eagerly to the story of her life and she was equally eager to hear the story of his, but although they had a clear understanding of the logical meaning of the words they exchanged, they failed to hear the semantic susurrus of the river flowing through them.

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.