Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines--an actress--say, "My art endows me with a searching eye, a knowledge of the soul and the soul's workings; and, spite of all your skill, I read to the depths. " This is a truth more or less powerful, as one is more or less gifted by the good God.
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
As far as depths of geekiness. . . I have more friends in World of Warcraft than I do in real life!
We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered.
The concept of 'home' is not just where one resides, but where the heart resides; in the purest depths of the soul. ♥
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
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 new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.
There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
The depths of the sea are only water after all.
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.