Quotes about Depth
It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.
— Aldous Huxley
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
— Joseph Campbell
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
— Pablo Picasso
To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth.
— Anonymous
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
— Anonymous
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You know, you're a little complicated after all." "Oh no," she assured him hastily. "No, I'm not really - I'm just a - I'm just a whole lot of different simple people.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Behind the world we live in, in the distant background, lies another world standing in roughly the same relation to the former as the stage one sometimes sees in the theatre behind the real stage stands to the latter.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.
— Alice Hoffman