Abyss

Famous quotes containing the word abyss:

    We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    Daddy?
    That’s another kind of prison.
    It’s not the prince at all,
    but my father
    drunkenly bent over my bed,
    circling the abyss like a shark....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)