Famous quotes containing the word abyss:
“The abyss of desire is difficult to fill.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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 (18031882)
“Daddy?
Thats another kind of prison.
Its not the prince at all,
but my father
drunkenly bent over my bed,
circling the abyss like a shark....”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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