a pit QUOTES

1 " I've got the Mark of Cain," said Simon. " That means nothing can kill me, right?" " You can kill yourself," Magnus said, somewhat unhelpfully. " As far as I know, inanimate objects can accidentally kill you. So if you were planning on teaching yourself the lambada on a greased platform over a pit full of knives, I wouldn't." " There goes my Saturday. "

2 " Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Seduce Me at Sunrise (The Hathaways, #2)

3 " We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy. "

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

4 " A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow. "

― Amit Abraham

5 " Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning." " Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. " Can vipers be rabid?" " I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though." " Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?" " You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering." " Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this. "

6 " . . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233) "

― Satchidananda , The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

7 " No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. "

― Shannon L. Alder

8 " Tucked inside the moments of this great sadness - this feeling of being punctured, scrambling and stricken - were also moments of the brightest, most swollen and logic shattering happiness I've ever experienced. One moment would be a wall of happiness so tall it could not be scaled; the next felt like falling into a pit of sadness that had no bottom. I realized you could not have one without the other, that this great capacity to love and be happy can be experienced only with this great risk of having happiness taken from you - to tremble, always, on the edge of loss. "

― Emily Rapp , The Still Point of the Turning World

9 " Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me. "

― Bernard Cornwell , Enemy of God (The Warlord Chronicles, #2)

10 " Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long. "

― Israelmore Ayivor , 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

11 " You should feel good about yourself. Don't get down in a pit all about yourself, and how much you suck. 'Cause that rubbish ain't true. There's a reason you're the way you are, and who knows, anything can happen to anybody, so, never go down in the pit, and, if you do, you better get yourself poor self out of there, RIGHT AWAY. "

― Sydney Wilhelmy

12 " Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. What was it about her that drove him crazy? He'd never had such a wild and instantaneous reaction to a woman before. "

― T.A. Grey , Take Me (The Untouchables, #1)

13 " Quite honestly, there are days when I don’t need a God who will deliver me from the pit, just a God who will get down in a pit with me. "

14 " During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life… "

― Franz Kafka , Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

15 " He made a pit and digged it. He was cunning in his plans and industrious in his labors. He stooped to the dirty work of digging. He did not fear to soil his own hands. He was willing to work in a ditch if others might fall therein. What mean things men will do to wreak revenge on the godly. They hunt for good men as if they were brute beasts - they that will not give them the fair chase afforded to the hare or the fox, but must secretly entrap them because they can neither run them down nor shoot them down. Our enemies will not meet us to the face for they fear us as much as they pretend to despise us. But let us look on to the end of the scene. The verse says he has fallen into the ditch that he has made. Ah, there he is. Let us laugh at his disappointment. Lo, he is himself the beast. He has hunted his own soul. The chase has brought him a goodly victim. So should it ever be. "

― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

16 " We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.
You have never spoken before. "

― China Miéville , Embassytown

17 " But there were other, vaguer, harder-to-pin-down feelings, like: a pit in the stomach that means something is either really good or really bad or both. A feeling of being old and young at once. A sense of beginnings and endings happening at the same time. A certainty that your life is changing, but an uncertainty about how it's changing and whether you want it to. "

― Pseudonymous Bosch , The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)

18 " World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk to enter the mouth with minimal contact and for the entire reaction between them to take place in the mouth. Randy has worked out a set of mental blueprints for a special cereal-eating spoon that will have a tube running down the handle and a little pump for the milk, so that you can spoon dry cereal up out of a bowl, hit a button with your thumb, and squirt milk into the bowl of the spoon even as you are introducing it into your mouth. The next best thing is to work in small increments, putting only a small amount of Cap’n Crunch in your bowl at a time and eating it all up before it becomes a pit of loathsome slime, which, in the case of Cap’n Crunch, takes about thirty seconds. "

― Neal Stephenson , Cryptonomicon

19 " I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one. "

― Donna Lynn Hope

20 " Life’s journey doesn’t start on the highest mountain peak where a clear view of the trail ahead, obstacles and all, is laid out for us to observe before setting foot on the path. No. Life’s journey begins on a low road, in a valley, or even down inside a pit where the trail beyond can only be seen in short stretches, and any obstacles are met as they come. This makes life trying, even scary at times. Have faith that God gave you this life, and hence it is worth seeing through to the end of the trail. "

― Richelle E. Goodrich , Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

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