I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Irremediably, little by little, the distance between them became an insurmountable abyss.” — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss. — Leonard of Port Maurice Copy Share Image
Hark! o'er the dread abyss the sea-bird screams-- The rocks resound--again the lightning gleams! — John Ramsay Copy Share Image
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken. Love requires a leap of faith into the… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson Copy Share Image
Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism and the… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
“When the ship approached the equator, I stopped going out on deck in the daytime. The sun burned like a flame. The… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image