Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or surface:
“We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There’s something tragic in the fate of almost every person—it’s just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)