Depth Quotes

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. (Richard Bach)
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. View quote
Albert Camus
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is not length of life, but depth of life. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. (Pythagoras)
Love has more depth as you get older. View quote
Kirk Douglas
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy! View quote
Emil Cioran
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. View quote
Margaret Cho
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. View quote
David Brin
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. View quote
George Orwell
The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. View quote
William Wordsworth
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. View quote
Henry Adams
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us. (Walt Disney)
Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough. View quote
Diane Chamberlain
We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
📖 Depth Proverbs