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Depth Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.”
Ivan Turgenev
2.
“In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.”
Charles Lamb
3.
“Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.”
Margaret Fuller
4.
“The face can be misleading. Fall in love with the mind.”
Ankur Warikoo
5.
“Do not confuse calm people as those lacking fire!”
Ankur Warikoo
6.
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
V.S. Naipaul
7.
“My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.”
V.S. Naipaul
8.
“There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.”
V.S. Naipaul
9.
“The depth of the heart, the retired corner, and the forest are the three places for meditation.”
Ramakrishna
10.
“Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
11.
“Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
12.
“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
13.
“Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.”
Pythagoras
14.
“In reality the monk abandons the world only in order to listen more intently to the deepest and most neglected voices that proceed from its inner depth.”
Thomas Merton
15.
“The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.”
Thomas Merton
16.
“If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you – it will come out of that wall.”
Anton Chekhov
17.
“It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.”
Anton Chekhov
18.
“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.”
Stendhal
19.
“None of us goes deep below the surface. We skim the top only, and we regard the smattering of time spent in the search for wisdom as enough and to spare for a busy man.”
Seneca
20.
“When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.”
Seneca
21.
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. And the same thing must hold true of men who seek intimate acquaintance with no single author, but visit them all in a hasty and hurried manner.”
Seneca
22.
“Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!”
Alice Walker
23.
“Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It’s about the intention of what you want it to do.”
Alice Walker
24.
“I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.”
Alice Walker
25.
“Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.”
Henry Ward Beecher
26.
“The journey on the spiritual path is the greatest journey – no man has climbed a mountain peak higher than this, no man has ever dived into a deeper ocean. The depth of the self is the deepest, and the height is the highest.”
Sadhguru
27.
“If you are really interested in knowing life in all its depth and dimension, it is imperative that you look inward, not out.”
Sadhguru
28.
“You discover an indescribable profundity within yourself when you realize your mortal nature.”
Sadhguru
29.
“The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror.”
Gustave Flaubert
30.
“Ascend skyward forever and forever,–yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below – there is no end.”
Gustave Flaubert
31.
“Read much, but not many books.”
Gustave Flaubert
32.
“To be simple is no small matter.”
Gustave Flaubert
33.
“Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.”
Henrik Ibsen
34.
“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”
Thomas Carlyle
35.
“All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!”
Thomas Carlyle
36.
“Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.”
Thomas Carlyle
37.
“Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.”
Thomas Carlyle
38.
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”
Thomas Carlyle
39.
“All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.”
Thomas Carlyle
40.
“No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.”
Thomas Carlyle
41.
“If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare’s intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.”
Thomas Carlyle
42.
“Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.”
Thomas Carlyle
43.
“Silence is more eloquent than words.”
Thomas Carlyle
44.
“See deep enough, and you see musically.”
Thomas Carlyle
45.
“A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.”
Thomas Carlyle
46.
“Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.”
Amy Tan
47.
“Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.”
Julian Barnes
48.
“How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?”
Julian Barnes
49.
“Everything you do, or might achieve thereafter, is thinner, weaker, matters less. There is no echo coming back; no texture, no resonance, no depth of field.”
Julian Barnes
50.
“The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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