Quotes of Precipice - somelinesforyou

“ If we didn't live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt, but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him… ”

- Zen Poem

“ In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter the clouds, disappear, reappear, People watch them, mark them. They walk by the side of precipices. They daringly pursue their road… ”

- Victor Hugo
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