There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?...…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which…

— Adrienne Rich

He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion or intensity…

— Fiona Apple

In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there…

— Alister Hardy

I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these…

— Pablo Neruda

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

— Bryan Davis

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

— Laozi

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched…

— Billy Graham

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe