#depths

This is what’s happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I knew it existed. Which is why I avoided it. Because it leads to the other-life, deep, underground, the fluvial, the painful.) We are in the process of descending into the depths of the heart. To where bodies communicate with each other. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#secret #source #communication

Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night. ↗

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

#debts #depths-of-poverty #indecent-life #food

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. ↗

— John le Carre

#british press #depths #go #go to hell #hell

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#god #heights #manhood #seek #you

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God. ↗

— Jessi Colter

#feel #god #greater #i #i think

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ↗

— George Eliot

#depths #into #look #love #only

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#depths #hard #i #i think #love

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #courage #depths #eternal #face

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#discovers #ever #his #loneliness #own