Top 100 Quotes About Depths
#1. And yet they are in us, those who have long since passed away, as natural disposition, as burden on our destiny, as blood that throbs, and as gesture that rises up out of the depths of time.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#2. A lovely little wooden cottage in the depths of a forest is the most beautiful palace a king or any man can ever have!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
Jane Porter
#4. His small fragile ship had barely escaped a disaster; now it enters a region of new storms and uncharted depths through which even the best led ... cannot find a guide. He must find his own way and be his own saviour.
Hermann Hesse
#5. They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#6. In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
Rudolf Carnap
#7. We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies.
John O'Donohue
#8. I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.
Cristin Terrill
#9. The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ...
Herbert Read
#10. That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.
Ramona Koval
#12. The main expressed goal for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year, 1957/8, was to study "the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes." This wasn't a secret assignment, you understand, but a proud public boast. In
Bill Bryson
#13. We are happy we soar very high and when we are not we fall into the depths of an abyss.
Amitav Ghosh
#14. They were a proud people, cheerful in the face of hardship, strong in the depths of captivity, and ruthless in their pursuit of freedom.
Dan Wells
#15. The best part of being me is that everyone underestimates the depths of stupidity I'm willing to plumb in order to win out. Azrael
Tim Marquitz
#16. and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping
Gilly Macmillan
#17. Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.
Mal Peet
#18. God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
Alexander MacLaren
#19. That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#20. You're either gonna let them fulfill their destiny and bloom, or, more likely, you're gonna screw it all up and damn them to the depths.
Alyson Noel
#21. But words are vain; reject them all
They utter but a feeble part:
Hear thou the depths from which they call,
The voiceless longing of my heart.
George MacDonald
#22. The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.
Paulo Coelho
#23. This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.
Elisabeth Elliot
#24. What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
Victor Hugo
#25. Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work ... where crime is concerned, she's the goods.
Agatha Christie
#26. South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Watkin Tudor Jones
#27. 19Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! +
Anonymous
#28. Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.
George Eliot
#29. There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.
Ann Rinaldi
#30. The minds of others are stranger depths to employ our hearts to than our own wonderland of cerebral cortex.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#31. Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.
Nick Nolte
#33. The gospel at Christmas is: Christ has trampled this enemy underfoot at the cross. So for everyone who trusts in him, their sins are cast into the depths of the sea.
John Piper
#34. No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself
of its absurdity.
Jeffrey Lang
#35. When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.
Joshua Emmet
#36. It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke
#37. They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.
William Golding
#38. I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart
callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence.
From the short story What Rough Beast
Michael Hibbard
#39. Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.
Phil Cousineau
#40. The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart
Martin Luther
#41. 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
Gary Ross
#42. The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
Kate Chopin
#43. True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
Bill McCartney
#44. So much of a novelist's writing ... takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the word appears on paper. We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Graham Greene
#45. The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.
Tom Holland
#46. Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that's how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It's because they've seen the depths.
Brianna Wiest
#47. When we would consider the love of God in Christ, we are as one approaching the ocean: he casts a glance on the surface, but the depths he cannot sound. - R. C. C.
Alexander Strauch
#48. Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#49. Thomas Merton, say it, as he so often does: A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite - are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.
Richard Rohr
#50. Love requires learning to love ourselves in the mirror, and learning to look other people in the eye. Buddhism, in turn, asks us to pause and look at even the subtlest causal connections and take our appreciation of them to greater depths.
Ethan Nichtern
#51. The hostess extended her swanlike neck and opened her mouth to the fullest. "Aaaahhhaaaahhhhheeeeaaaahhhh!"
Somewhere in the depths of the pine forest an identical sound reverberated.
"An echo!" exclaimed Frannie.
"No," smiled Helena. "Sybil Manigault. She's into nature.
Armistead Maupin
#52. The depths of the hearts of humankind cannot be known. But in my birthplace, the plum blossoms smell the same as in the years gone by
Clay MacCauley
#53. A centuries-old message from my depths, it warned me to guard against myself, and go running in the sun.
Goliarda Sapienza
#54. If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy
#55. Bliss and joy come in moments of living our highest truth
moments when what we do is consistent with our archetypal depths. It's when we are most authentic and trusting, and feel that whatever we are doing, which can be quite ordinary, is nonetheless sacred.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#56. But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
Mary Balogh
#57. There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#58. The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.
Tony Blair
#60. Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price
Seanan McGuire
#61. In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.
Dave Gibbons
#62. I looked into his eyes, and I saw so much more than just him. I saw the pain, the triumphs, the love, the horror, the sorrow, the joy, but most of all, the person I was in love with. There was so much more than just him in the depths of his eyes.
Me
#63. Language falters in the abyss; it fractures at the site of trauma. We need to find a different way of speaking from the depths, reclaiming the notion that language about God is always fractured language, always broken, and never complete.
Shelly Rambo
#64. Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.
J.R. Ward
#65. It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.
Stanley Hoffmann
#66. Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!
Leo Tolstoy
#67. I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame
Elizabeth Taylor
#68. Given to air alone, the cuts of this world burn. But when we dare to enter what is deep, the bruises we carry soften and glow. In truth, the more we accept our limitations and surrender to the depths below our woundedness, the more the vastness holds us up. There is no way to know this but to dive.
Mark Nepo
#69. Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean ...
Epeli Hau'ofa
#70. Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#71. Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#72. There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Martin Luther
#73. Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#74. My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents,
so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.
Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep
as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"
-from "My Aquarius
Richelle E. Goodrich
#75. So there was but one way of setting matters right, as Mr Malison had generosity enough left in him to perceive; and that was, to make a friend of his adversary. Indeed there is that in the depths of every human breast which makes a reconciliation the only victory that can give true satisfaction.
George MacDonald
#76. Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
Ann Voskamp
#77. Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.
Rollo May
#78. To possess one single thing (it is Louis now) must waver, like the light in and out of the beech leaves; and then words, moving darkly, in the depths of your mind will break up this knot of hardness, screwed in your pocket-handkerchief.
Virginia Woolf
#79. Between the shadows of the earth and the dark depths of the sky, human life lay slumbering, with all its unsolved puzzles.
Theodor Storm
#80. A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#81. I'm not nothing." His eyes that had only seconds ago glittered with barely controlled rage now warmed until she swore she could see specks of pure sunlight dancing in the light brown depths. "You're my goddamned everything. And anyone who tells you differently is a pathetic fool.
Jennifer Lyon
#82. Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.
Billy Cannon
#83. Something tells me if he thought you wanted the Titanic, he would retrieve it from the depths of the Atlantic for you.
Nicole Williams
#84. The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea.
I always chose the sea.
Katherine McIntyre
#85. Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
Robert Toth
#86. Mistakes can bring us to spiritual heights, or depths, which we would have otherwise not visited.
DovBer Pinson
#87. Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
Fulton J. Sheen
#88. At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath.
Sean Holloway
#89. Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#90. Sequestered in the depths of the average pacifist - as one will invariably discover - resides a killer. That is why the person has become a pacifist in the first place.
Norman Mailer
#91. When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
Georges St-Pierre
#92. When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
Peter Zumthor
#93. Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.
Virginia Woolf
#94. Lovely eyes in colour, lovely eyes in form - large and tender and quietly thoughtful - but beautiful above all things in the clear truthfulness of look that dwells in their inmost depths, and shines through all their changes of expression with the light of a purer and a better world.
Wilkie Collins
#95. We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.
Chloe Thurlow
#96. If you allow dunya to own your heart, like the ocean that owns the boat, it will take over. You will sink down to the depths of the sea. You will touch the ocean floor.
Yasmin Mogahed
#97. There are things we find only at our lowest depths. The idea of wings and then wings themselves. An ocean worth crossing one dark mile at a time. The whole of the sky.
Paula McLain
#98. Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a leap of faith - faith in your U-boat, and your crew - beside which the saints' religious epiphanies amount to nothing.
Neal Stephenson
#99. I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
Gerry Abbey
#100. Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
Blaise Cendrars
