ABYSS Our country lives Among the dead And dies among the…

“There is a religion somewhere in the world that believes we all die twice; once in the normal way and the second time when…

— Julian Fellowes

“Here is a sermon for you, Reverend: Everything not dead dies. Just like those little fellows scooting around beside that dead mamma goose, little…

— Allan Dare Pearce

A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.

— David Dellinger

I think it's important to cultivate as many people as you can to see which ones you jive with. And it makes you happy.…

— Johnny Mathis

Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil

— Dante Alighieri

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The Gnanis [The enlightened ones] have said that if one lives as if he is dead, death will never come to him.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.”

— Liz Thebart

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

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

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

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