depth of life Quotes

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

I would like to mention some preparations that were required of me. The first preparation is to take a right attitude toward life. This means, stop being an escapist! Stop being a surface liver who stays right in the froth of the surface. There are millions of these people, and they never find anything really worthwhile. Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found. That's what we are doing here now.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains