Abyss Quotes

“music is a blessed abyss.”

— Gwen Calvo

The human soul is an abyss

— Fernando Pessoa

“Drift into the Eversea.”

— H.S. Crow

Love guards the heart from the abyss.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

— Henning Mankell

We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.

— Fernando Pessoa

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

— Kedar Joshi

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” --Andrew”

— Laura Kreitzer

“When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

— John Green

On the other side of the abyss love lives and breathe, you are here.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“We are walking on a bridge of ice with an abyss on either side.”

— George R.R. Martin

“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”

— Anonymous

Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master!

— Anonymous

“The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!”

— Frank Herbert

I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.

— David Mitchell

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses,…

— Julien Green

Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep…

— Vaclav Havel

“To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.”

— Laura Kreitzer

Man is something that shall be overcome… Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss...…

— Anonymous

I tweeted that I wanted Little Mix's 'Touch' played at my funeral - I think that'd be a great song to send…

— Lewis Capaldi

An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.

— Meridel Le Sueur

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into…

— Andrew Cohen

“...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like…

— Gustave Flaubert

You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and…

— Werner Herzog

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in…

— Charles Dickens

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

I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to…

— Adyashanti

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent…

— Anonymous

The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what…

— Terry Goodkind

It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what…

— Primo Levi

“In a world where half the Earth drowned, silence is the only peace… and the greatest danger. Fifteen years ago, the oceans…

— Kamish Kamish

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

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

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

The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but…

— Florence Bascom

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