Appearance Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

You can't be deep without a surface

— Jonathan Lethem

“Sometimes, things go deeper than what you see on the surface.”

— Jamie McGuire

“I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without,…

— Jane Hamilton

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

— James Nicoll

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You live on the surface," Lia told me years later. "You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces…

— Umberto Eco

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But…

— Italo Calvino

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

— Marcus Aurelius

“You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.”

— Jodi Picoult

I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

— John Singer Sargent