Unknown Depths Quotes

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.

The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn't down there, I don't know.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

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!

There's too much we don't know about the ocean to make me feel comfortable around it.