Depths

Famous quotes containing the word depths:

“Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXX (l. CXXX, 1)

“The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“Down in the depths on the ninetieth floor.”
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)