The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought… — Toba Beta 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
I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With political will and strategic initiatives, we can prevent more and more of our global neighbors from falling into the abyss of… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We must avoid coming to too close quarters with life. It is a slender crust over which you must walk without bearing… — Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer Copy Share Image
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
I choose to believe that we are addicted to the rush of being offended, the idea of it, rather than believing we… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“I’m only going to say this once,” I said with a finger pointed at him. “So don’t make me repeat it. I’ve… — Laura Kreitzer 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
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
“In a world where half the Earth drowned, silence is the only peace… and the greatest danger. Fifteen years ago, the oceans… — Kamish Kamish Copy Share Image
All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
“As the abyss widens, though, I begin to fear that coming back to the surface may, someday, not be under my control.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is. — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, we try to tell ourselves "I'm confident" or "I'm doing well." But then, in a moment alone at… — Christian Tetzlaff Copy Share Image
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea. — Judd Apatow 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
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid… — Joë Bousquet Copy Share Image
I didn't work for more than two years. I sat on the couch and waited for work to come in. I got… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
