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
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is… — Stephen Hadley Copy Share Image
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
It was going to be a long, dark night but not quite as dark as it was in the abyss of his… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that… — Olivier Messiaen Copy Share Image
Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We are a great capitalist society, that works most of the time. We do need to take better care of our people… — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
“There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I don’t mean lost in the woods, or desert,… — H.D. Gordon 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
How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the… — Jon Polito Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“for we all have our own twilights and mists and abysses to return to.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
