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 (14941553)
“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 didnt know how to swallow me!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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