Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams.

Despair is deep. An abyss that swallows dreams. A wall at the world's end. Behind it I await death. Because all our work has…

— Catherine Fisher

“He was nothing but a deep abyss of want, and only she could fill him.”

— Courtney Milan

“Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep…

— Ralph Nader

“For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for…

— Hermann Hesse

“Thoughts are like an open ocean, they can either move you forward within its waves, or sink you under deep into its abyss.”

— Anthony Liccione

The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary…

— William Hazlitt

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

— Honore de Balzac

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He…

— Lance Armstrong

“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every…

— Anonymous

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and…

— John of Kronstadt

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.…

— Ben Okri