Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A familiar, dark fire rippled in her gut, spreading through her, dragging her down into an abyss without end. Celaena Sardothien stood… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and… — King Tuff Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Movies like 'The Abyss' and 'Jaws' make people think the ocean is threatening. It's not. It's very tranquil. — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I'd gazed into the abyss and the abyss had gazed back, just like Daddy always said it would: You want to know… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't find inspiration on Wall Street. I don't find that in Beverly Hills. I don't find that in places where opportunity… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is… — Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Copy Share Image
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“We think we can escape down half-deserted streets but all the things we use to defend ourselves - overworking, over-drinking, over-eating, under-eating,… — Anna Raverat Copy Share Image
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“But at the best, it is a dull, animal happiness, the content of the full belly. The dominant note of their lives… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“In their book Warrior Lovers , an analysis of erotic fiction by women, the psychologist Catherine Salmon and the anthropologist Donald Symons… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I don’t mean lost in the woods, or desert,… — H.D. Gordon Copy Share Image
“The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn’t know which one.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
“As the abyss widens, though, I begin to fear that coming back to the surface may, someday, not be under my control.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
