Abyss

Famous quotes containing the word abyss:

“Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)

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