music is a blessed abyss.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music,…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

Benny Carter came up to me and said to me, "You know, in the whole history of the alto, I think Phil is the…

— Jon Gordon

Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm;…

— Anonymous

“But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The…

— John Milton

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond…

— Rachel Carson

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall.

— Nalini Singh

I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of…

— Rhys Ifans

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that…

— Jenny Eclair

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

“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

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