Best Depth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 24

Source: Sonnets (Complete Edition): 63 Sonnets from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets, influenced by John Milton and Edmund Spenser, and one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature, alongside William Shakespeare

“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”

Order Fighting Laughing Truth Is Breaths Depth Everyday Dare Surface Swimming Pool Abyss Swimming Pool Springboards

Author:Franz Kafka

“The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.”

Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

“But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.”

Ifs Age Aging Depth Maturity Radiance Superior Man Truly Happy

Author:David Deida

“Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.”

Should Doe Soul Self Crime Produce Red Hatred Hot Guilt Depth Iron Disgusting Affliction Stamps Scorn Discouraging Self Hatred Red Hot

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”

Ifs Hard Light Darkness Cold Adversity Depth Calm Prosperity Height Heat Rough Smooth Fluid Life Death Tempest

Author:Pythagoras

“When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Matter Whole Body Hands Might Remember Fall Fighting Winning Land Kings Conflict Depth Blow Rings Height Solo Pawns Cuz Where You Stand

Author:Fiona Apple

“There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.”

People Pain Certain Class Depth

Book:E

Source: E

“How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.”

Source: A Passage to India

“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.”

World Kind Soul Body Order Sin Vision Needed Despair Perfection Property Strive Depth Glad Lust Compare Imaginary Nausea

Author:Hermann Hesse

“It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.”

Soul Joy Lying Creativity Darkness Missing Depth Core Brilliance Loveliness

Author:Thomas Moore

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

Inspirational Fear Depth Shallow No Fear Mermaid Have No Fear

Author:Anais Nin

“Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.”

Eye Joy Lying Dark Wonderful Generations Sorrow Laughter Depth Loyalty Aspiration Gray Joys And Sorrows Sod

Book:The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.”