Abyss

Famous quotes containing the word abyss:

    The abyss of desire is difficult to fill.
    Chinese proverb.

    I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    You have overcome yourself: but why do you show yourself to me only as the one overcome? I want to see the victor: cast roses into the abyss and say, “Here is my thanks to the monster, because it didn’t know how to swallow me!”
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)