The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I will say that going to these meetings and things, you know, I thought that, you know, be in a room with… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we… — Barbara Holland 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
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts… — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
