Best Depths Sayings
681 Depths quotes by 522 unique authors
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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to…
— Victor Hugo
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
— Thomas Cole
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Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to…
— William Arthur Ward
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The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the…
— Adolf Hitler
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We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember…
— James A. Garfield
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I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
— Homer
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
— Langston Hughes
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but to make people…
— John O'Donohue
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Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it…
— David Whyte
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping…
— Jessica Powers
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In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and…
— Pope John Paul II
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I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear…
— Benito Perez Galdos
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The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have…
— Hermann Hesse
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Whatever we say and mean by life is just a journey toward death. If you can understand that your whole life is just a journey…
— Rajneesh
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Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Wildness we might consider as the root of the authentic spontaneities of any being. It is that wellspring of creativity whence comes the instinctive activities…
— Thomas Berry
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No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
— Victor Hugo
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You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore…
— Wilferd Peterson
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant…
— Friedrich Schiller
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[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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