The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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
In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small! — James Blish Copy Share Image
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life,… — Camille Claudel 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
“In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of “the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“He offered me a ride up from the abyss and I took it. But a ride with the devil is never free.… — S.D. Skye Copy Share Image
“There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion,… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism and the… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some… — John Kennedy Toole 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
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“But at the best, it is a dull, animal happiness, the content of the full belly. The dominant note of their lives… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“In their book Warrior Lovers , an analysis of erotic fiction by women, the psychologist Catherine Salmon and the anthropologist Donald Symons… — Steven Pinker 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
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Within minutes my 115-mile walk through the desert hills becomes a thing apart, a disjunct reality on the far side of a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“ abyss , n . There are times when I doubt everything. When I regret everything you've taken from me, everything I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.” — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
One mustn't look at the abyss,because there is at the bottoman inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film… — Marcus Dunstan Copy Share Image
We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a… — Ed Balls Copy Share Image
She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“No matter what abyss was gaping Between the worlds that we belonged, Love was a realm of an escaping Deprived of any… — T.K. Varenko Copy Share Image
“Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“He imagined that the great dark abyss of space was alive and that he might attract its attention if he stared too… — Tom Melly 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
![“[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/anonymous-1_abyss_buddhism-and-christianity-are-in-one-sen_2272362.jpg)
