Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The…

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

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

“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

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 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

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

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

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

— Nalini Singh

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

“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

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

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my…

— Felix Dennis

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

— Fernando Pessoa

We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White…

— Brian Aldiss