“I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane,… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“I believe that theology is facing the abyss. I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning. — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“The abyss in which I live hasn't the wit to save itself from savage ignorance, and I now feel assured that I… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“We are surely doomed to hover continually upon the brink of Eternity, without taking the final plunge into the abyss. From billows… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Man is something that shall be overcome… Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send… — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses,… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into. — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. — Angelus Silesius Copy Share Image
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
“...and just to evade confrontation, he opens a window on the fourth floor, ready to jump. The abyss, more and more often,… — Domenico Starnone Copy Share Image
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
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