Depth Quotes

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Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of… — Mother Teresa
We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others. — Deborah Smith
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started… — Jack London
In the depths of my heart I canâ€™t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. — Sigmund Freud
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. — Frank Peretti
I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many. — Jeanette Winterson
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. — H. L. Mencken
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that… — Victor Hugo
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November,… — William Peter Blatty
You can have your pick of pretty women. Why me? You're like the ocean, Pattyn. Pretty enough on the surface, but dive down into your… — Ellen Hopkins
Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are… — Doris Lessing
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather… — Carl Sagan
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize. That light shines… — Haruki Murakami
Sir,â€™ said Stephen, â€˜I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. — Irving Stone

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