“Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.”

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“…as with most redheaded women what beauty she possessed was protean and odd.”

Michael Chabon book Wonder Boys

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd

“Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”

Neal Stephenson book Quicksilver

“the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.”

Frank E. Peretti (1951) American writer

“There is no depth of life without a way to depth, no truth without a way to truth.”

Ruth Nanda Anshen (1900–2003) American philosopher, author and editor

“It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.”

Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician