Literary notes about fathomless (AI summary)
The term "fathomless" is used to evoke a sense of endless depth and mystery in both the physical and emotional realms. It conveys the idea of an immeasurable, often inscrutable quality—whether describing the profound capacity of human love and despair, as seen when love is termed "fathomless" in its tenderness and mystery ([1], [2]), or when vast natural landscapes like oceans and skies are portrayed as endlessly deep and unknowable ([3], [4], [5], [6]). The word also lends a mystical or divine aura, suggesting that certain truths or spiritual mysteries lie beyond complete human comprehension ([7], [8], [9]). By using "fathomless," writers imbue their language with an evocative mix of wonder, terror, and the sublime, suggesting that many of life's most profound experiences are as vast as they are mysterious.
- How daring an ambition; yet how deep- How fathomless a capacity for love!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - But these doubts were no support to her, nothing on which she could rest, and she sunk into the fathomless depths of despair.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. Andersen - My God, how infinite the depth of the sky, and with what fathomless immensity it stretched over the world!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - Ocean bore a secret on her billowy bosom—it was but one added to the myriads buried in her fathomless depths.
— from £19,000 by Burford Delannoy - The sun had never shown more brightly, the sky had never seemed so fathomless and blue.
— from The Desired Woman by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben - The moon sailed broad and bright in a clear, fathomless sky.
— from Contraband; Or, A Losing Hazard by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville - Far be it from His glory that human tongue should adequately recount His praise, or that human heart comprehend His fathomless mystery.
— from The Kitáb-i-Íqán by Bahá'u'lláh - "Through his guidance, your experiences of the Divine in terms of love and devotion shall be translated into his terms of fathomless wisdom.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - It is only daring Theology—never Science or Philosophy—which seeks to gauge the Infinite and unveil the Fathomless and Unknowable.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
