Emotional Depths Quotes

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

I want to look into the dark spaces in people's souls. At what happens to us when we go to the mountains.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.