God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.” — Blaise Pascal 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
“Irremediably, little by little, the distance between them became an insurmountable abyss.” — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words! — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“He who fears being watched from the abyss will be unable to look into it himself. The truth can only be obtained… — Sadamu Yamashita 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
“She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest portions of the oceanic… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes.… — Gershom Scholem Copy Share Image
A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off… — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint … Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots,… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“...we are of a broad, Karamazovian nature--and this is what I am driving at--capable of containing all possible opposites and of contemplating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special… — Iannis Xenakis Copy Share Image
People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think… — Lady Gaga 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
Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss… — Robin Spriggs Copy Share Image
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but… — Florence Bascom Copy Share Image
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t exactly much fun to be around. Being with me was like falling into an abyss.” — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.” — Maxim Jakubowski Copy Share Image
You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“One puts to one’s lips what drives one faster into the abyss”.” — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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