Pits quotes
119 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden. You look at Exodus and the Israelites' escape from a bottomless pit. God is not evenhanded. God is biased up to his eyebrows."
"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."
"Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes."
"If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities."
"If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?"
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"We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now."
"The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit."
"The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love."
"Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are."
"Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit."
"Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies."
"Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit."
"He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason."
"I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness."
"If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself."
"Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it."
"Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there."
"Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it."
"Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men."
"It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit."
"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
"Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit."
"My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?"
"That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits."
"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
