Depth Quotes

1523 quotes by 1136 authors

In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other.… — Yasunari Kawabata
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth… — Mark Helprin
Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship… — Luke Davies
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like… — Rajneesh
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. — Alan Moore
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime. — Victor Hugo
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to… — Sue Grafton
Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city… — Thomas Paine
Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers. — Karen Marie Moning
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had… — Truman Capote
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible.… — Terry Pratchett
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry… — Virginia Woolf
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer
Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby. — Neil Strauss
He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many… — Haruki Murakami
I'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables) — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves… — George Eliot

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