“Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.”

“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

Erich Fromm book Escape from Freedom

“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

James I of England (1566–1625) king during union of English and Scottish crowns

“I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) English-American childrens' playwright and author

“If you dig a pit for others to fall into,
you will fall into it yourself.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“But greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
If you're still free start runnin' away
'cause we're comin' for ya!”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

“What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.”

Margaret Barber book The Roadmender