Pit Quotes

313 quotes by 285 authors

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse… — Rumi
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more… — Oscar Wilde
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to… — Brandon Sanderson
live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the… — Jeanette Winterson
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier.… — Sarah Addison Allen
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller
Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit. — Cassandra Clare
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. — Eleanor Roosevelt
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to… — Erich Maria Remarque
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an… — Orhan Pamuk
Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious… — Jeff Lindsay
Sometimes itâ€™s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, â€˜Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I… — Daphne du Maurier
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen… — Cormac McCarthy
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something… — Julia Gregson
As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan.… — Ilona Andrews

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